/ˈaɪ̯nə ˈʃtaŋə ˈɡɛlt ˈkɔstn̩/ lit. ‘to cost a pole of money’
German idiom, colloquial. To cost a huge amount of money.
Draft Not yet checked by a native German speaker.
How do people use Eine Stange Geld kosten
?
Colloquial but safe anywhere, from family talk to newspaper columns. It’s usually dressed up with an adjective that sounds polite and means the opposite of cheap: “eine schöne Stange Geld”, “eine hübsche Stange Geld”, “eine stolze Stange Geld”. “Eine Stange Geld” also works without kosten, for earning, saving or spending a lot.
Also said eine schöne Stange Geld kosten, eine hübsche Stange Geld kosten, eine ganz schöne Stange Geld
Eine Stange Geld kosten
in real sentences
-
Dieses Blouson muss dich eine Stange Geld gekostet haben.
That jacket must have cost you an arm and a leg.
Tatoeba, sentence by Tamy, translation by sundown, CC BY 2.0 FR
-
Die Renovierung wird eine schöne Stange Geld kosten.
The renovation is going to cost a pretty penny.
Tatoeba, sentence by Waldelfe, translation by ddnktr, CC BY 2.0 FR
Where does Eine Stange Geld kosten
come from?
The redensarten-index explains the pole as the stick-shaped rolls in which banks pack coins, so a Stange Geld is a whole roll of money rather than a few loose coins. English Wiktionary lists “a lot (especially of money)” as a colloquial sense of Stange. Neither source gives a date for the first recorded use, and the coin-roll story, while plausible, is an explanation rather than a documented origin.
Mistakes learners make with Eine Stange Geld kosten
Adding “von”: “eine Stange von Geld” sounds wrong, it’s just “eine Stange Geld”, like “eine Tasse Kaffee”. Making it plural (“Stangen Geld”) doesn’t make it bigger either; it’s always the one Stange.
Other German idioms like Eine Stange Geld kosten
Spot a mistake in Eine Stange Geld kosten
?
Send a correction, or a sentence you’d actually say with it. Everything is read before anything on this page changes.