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idiomwhere there's muck there's brass BrEBrEold-fashioned used in order to say that the best way to make a lot of money is from businesses such as mines, factories etc that are ugly and dirty:Where there's muck there's brass, and there was certainly money to be made during the early years of the Industrial Revolution.
where there's muck, there's brassThere is profit to be made from the jobs that other people think are unpleasant and do not want to do. I started a portable toilet business because I knew that where there's muck, there's brass. where there's muck there's brass dirty or unpleasant activities are also lucrative. proverbwhere there’s ˌmuck there’s ˈbrass (British English, saying) used to say that somebody has made a lot of money from an unpleasant or a dirty business activity: When they saw his enormous house and flash car they looked at each other, both thinking ‘Where there’s muck there’s brass.’ Muck is dirt or mud. Brass is an old-fashioned word for ‘money’. |