make a buck

idiom

: to earn money
I am just working hard, trying to make a buck.

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Check it out: The Switchback gave Holmes a way to make a buck while prototyping the larger public transit system, and testing it at high speeds. New Atlas, 15 Jan. 2025 Ditto for tedious paralegal tasks, or data entry, or even coding, or anything that any of the rest of us do to make a buck. John Werner, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024 Zoom in: Pecora's aspirations grew out of needing a quick way to make a buck to buy a new, expensive mountain bike, per Time. Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 16 Aug. 2024 Marvel itself mocks its audience’s susceptibility by bringing back characters, including many Marvel-hero cameos, against narrative logic, simply to make a buck. Armond White, National Review, 26 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for make a buck 

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“Make a buck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/make%20a%20buck. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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