📚 Money talks, phrase.
❓ Definition (proverb): Wealth gives power and influence to those who possess it.
❗️ Examples:
1. I twisted Billy's statement to demonstrate that money talks, and therefore gives its bearer power that others lack.
2. I know money talks but at the end of the day it is always going to be the player's choice as to where he plays his rugby.
3. The state of the union is that money talks and public policy is sold to the highest bidder.
4. Meritocracy was not totally absent in this story - if anything, it shows that money talks, but it doesn't necessarily call the shots.
5. Petitions and letters are nice, but money talks.
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