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They are told to put money in piggy banks and not eat all their Halloween candy at once.
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Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2023
Compared to a large public pension fund (like many teachers’ retirement funds or police and firefighter funds), Social Security is like Fort Knox and these public funds are just big piggy banks.
—Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2022
Mottola and Hamm, who thought the movie needed more time, decided to break open their piggy banks.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
Just as Henry VIII was immortalized (huge, menacing, thick-necked, pasty-faced and piggy-eyed) by his court painter, Hans Holbein the Younger, might this prove to be a defining image of Elizabeth II half a millennium hence?
—Nick Glass, CNN, 10 Sep. 2022
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Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2023
Compared to a large public pension fund (like many teachers’ retirement funds or police and firefighter funds), Social Security is like Fort Knox and these public funds are just big piggy banks.
—Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2022
Mottola and Hamm, who thought the movie needed more time, decided to break open their piggy banks.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
Just as Henry VIII was immortalized (huge, menacing, thick-necked, pasty-faced and piggy-eyed) by his court painter, Hans Holbein the Younger, might this prove to be a defining image of Elizabeth II half a millennium hence?
—Nick Glass, CNN, 10 Sep. 2022
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“Piggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piggy. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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