make a quid

It was nice knowing you both and I hope you can sell your pies for many years to come and make a quid.

'Well, you have to make a quid somehow and there ain't much money in firewood.'

'Christ, Peekay, I don't need to do this, there are other ways to make a quid, you'll see.'

What is actually in incredibly poor taste is to mentally make a quid pro quo--the quid being the meal, the quo being the gift.

'As for the personal gain, our primary purpose is to restore the school to its former boxing glory, there is no thought of not doing so if we can't make a quid out of it.

The most logical explanation is that the wrestlers made a quid pro quo agreement: you let me win today, when I really need the victory, and I'll let you win the next time.

"Now the purpose of that little exercise," said Ronnie, turning back to the carver and pocketing the note, "was to prove that Sam here isn't the only person who could make a quid for himself this afternoon."

Set in inner-city Woolloomooloo in Sydney, New South Wales in 1930, the neighbourhood nice guys are led by Fatty (real name Hubert Finn), an ambitious 10 year old with an eye for making a quid.

Soviet officials told State Department officials last week that they were reluctant to announce a deal in London, for fear that it would look like Mr. Gorbachev was making a quid pro quo compromise - a reduction in arms for economic aid.

Lecherous, leering and ribald, he epitomized the Australian 'lair', always trying to 'make a quid' or to 'knock off a Sheila'; yet some of his funniest moments were when he was being 'posh', as in his outrageous parody of Noël Coward's Private Lives with Sadie.