Meaning of more money than brains | Babel Free

Definitions

Wealthy, but lacking the wisdom to spend that wealth wisely.

Examples

“The Diver ſhall walk at the bottom of the Thames; the Saltpeter-Maker ſhall Build Tom T---ds Pond into Houſes; the Engineers Build Models and Windmills to draw Water, till Funds are rais’d to carry it on, by Men who have more Money than Brains, and then good night Patent and Invention; the Projector has done his buſineſs, and is gone.”

“But I suppose that a prig with more money than brains was much the same sixty or seventy years ago as he is now.”

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