long purse

noun

riches; wealth; significant financial resources

Meanings

nounlong purse (plural long purses)

plural long purses

  1. riches; wealth; significant financial resources

    "[…]and as Mr. H., with his long purse and his willingness to receive hints, is no bad card in the game, he has been brought up to Abbotsford for a week; his taciturnity has long ago fled, and he is one of the most loquacious Borderers going. […]"

    1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90
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    He had now been there five years, and many prudent farmers did not hesitate to say that they hoped he had a long purse — for what between repairs, and new outbuildings, and stone fences, and drains, and improved stock, besides a run of company — there must be a terrible outlay of money.

    1855, Azel Stevens Roe, A long look ahead; or, The first stroke and the last
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