long green | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,slang,often preceded bysomeorthe)Money, especially in the form ofcash.1912,P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 20, inThe Prince and Betty:"Why, a guy come to me and wants to give me half a ton of thelong greento go to dat poiper what youse was woikin' on and fix de guy what's runnin' it."1951November 12, “Less Take-Home Pay”, inPittsburgh Post Gazette, retrieved1 October 2010, page16:Under the latest tax increase, for instance, a worker with a wife and one child who earns $80 a week will have $8.60 taken out before thelong greencrosses his palm.2002January 15, Al Brumley, “'Chamber' may scare off viewers rather than scare up ratings”, inDallas Morning News, retrieved1 October 2010:Fox's new game show, The Chamber, lets people suffer to their hearts' content, with the hope of winning somelong green, too.

Examples:

EN: "For the peace of my years In the long green grass "Will be yours and yours and yours"
ES: pues tantos años de paz en medio de los vastos prados serán para ti, para ti y sólo para ti. "
EN: "For the peace of my years In the long green grass
ES: pues tantos años de paz en medio de los vastos prados serán para ti,
EN: It's a long green, a short red.
ES: Esta en verde mucho tiempo y poco en rojo. He cronometrado el rojo.
EN: It'll be the real long green.
ES: Serán los verdes auténticos.
EN: Teensy-winsy little men with long green feelers like this.
ES: Pequeños hombrecitos con antenitas verdes así.
EN: Excuse me, Mrs. Spelding, but the long green feelers went out with the short red tails.
ES: Disculpe, Sra. Spelding, pero los de antenitas verdes salieron con las de rabos rojos.
EN: Six-foot-long green bamboo shafts, cut in half and placed on the outside of the fence, tied in place with two lengths of cord.
ES: Seis shaku de bambú partidos por la mitad. La parte curva hacia fuera y atados con doble nudo.
EN: We found her.... Just like we're gonna find a big hunk of that long green.
ES: La hemos encontrado, como encontraremos la pasta gansa.
EN: You really do have the hots for the long green.
ES: Deseas de verdad esos fajos de billetes.
EN: white, frilly blouse, with a... a dark-green jacket, and a long green skirt.
ES: blusa blanca, con volantes, con una chaqueta verde oscuro, y una falda larga y verde.
EN: The bread, the shekels, you know, the long green, the money, two bucks!
ES: El dinero, los billetes. Ya sabes, el papel verde. El dinero. $2.
EN: Let us join in prayer that hickey, the great salesman, will soon arrive, bringing the blessed bourgeois long green.
ES: Recemos juntos para que Hickey, ...el gran viajante, llegue pronto y traiga burgueses billetes verdes.
EN: "long green valley"?
ES: ¿"Long Green Valley"?
EN: I'm a little short of long green this week... and I know you rubes are good for a peso or two.
ES: Me hace falta dinero esta semana... y sé que ustedes, palurdos, me harán ganar uno o dos pesos.
EN: - Yeah, I'm a wise guy with a lot of long green.
ES: - Si, y tengo... - ... muchos verdes.

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