fill one's pockets

verb

To make money

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Meanings

verbfill one's pockets (third-person singular simple present fills one's pockets, present participle filling one's pockets, simple past and past participle filled one's pockets)

present singular third person fills one's pockets · participle present filling one's pockets · participle past filled one's pockets · past filled one's pockets

  1. To make money

    “Yes, there’s that heart too. Tripe and heart, that’s all they give us. Fine fare that is! Is that justice or is it not?”//“Yes, the food’s bad.”//“He’s filling his pockets, I warrant.”//“It’s not your business.”

    1920, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The House of the Dead
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