Money & finance
burn a hole in your pocket
feel eager to spend money
If money is burning a hole in your pocket, you feel a strong urge to spend it straight away.
Hear it in real life
Are you saving your bonus?
Not really - it's burning a hole in my pocket.
That birthday money is burning a hole in my pocket.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: That birthday money is burning a hole on my pocket.
Say: That birthday money is burning a hole in my pocket.
The idiom uses “in your pocket” when money feels too tempting to keep.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
money is burning a hole in my pocket; burn a hole in your pocket
Your turn: say it out loud
That birthday money is burning a hole in my pocket.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
burn a hole in your pocket
feel eager to spend money
“That birthday money is burning a hole in my pocket.”
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