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Money Talks: Everything Else Walks

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Do you know the meaning of the belowing phrases?

money talks
it is a jungle out there
survive the jungle out there
bogus
rip off
get down to brass tacks

Explain them and get    

thanks a lot,good luck

money talks:

a person with a lot of money can say how he or she wants things done

jungle out there:

Ask anyone in a business. They will tell you that it is a jungle out there.

Sometimes people in business feel competing businesses are as dangerous as wild animals. And they feel that unknown dangers in the business world threaten the survival of their business.

People in business have to be careful if they are to survive the jungle out there.

bogus:

something that is not real.

rip off:

had something stolen, or at least has been treated very unfairly.

get down to brass tacks:

get to the bottom or most important part of something

So, if we get down to brass tacks, we can prevent ripoffs and bogus ways of earning money in that jungle out there.

bogus:

虚假的 

ripped off:

被剥了皮

get down to brass tacks:

追根究底

People often say that money talks, they mean that a person with a lot of money can say how he or she wants things done. But it is not easy to earn enough money to gain this kind of power. Ask anyone in the business, they will tell you that it is a jungle out there.

The expression probably began because the jungle is filled with wild animals and unknown dangers that threaten people. Sometime people in businesses feel completing businesses are as dangerous as wild animals, and they that unknown dangers in the business world threaten the survival of the business.

People in business have to be careful, if they are to survive the jungle out there, they must not be led in bogus in investments. Bogus means something that is not real. Nobody was sure how the word got started, but it began appear in an American’s newspaper in the 1800s. A newspaper in Boston Massachusetts said the word came form a criminal whose name was Boguse. The newspaper said Boguse wrote checks to people, although he did not enough money in the bank. After he wrote the checks he would flee from town. So people who would pay with his checks received nothing. The newspaper said Americans shorten and change the criminal’s name of Boguse to bogus.

People trying to earn money also must be aware of being ripped off. A person who had been ripped off had something stolen or at least be treated unfairly. A writer for a magazine “American speech” said he first saw the expression used in 1971. It was a on a sign that a student carrying during a protest demonstration at a university. The message on the sign was the student failed ripped off or cheated. Perhaps the best way to prevent getting ripped off in business is to not to try to get rich quickly.

To be successful, the person in business works hard and tries to break down to brass tacks.

This expression means to get to the bottom or most important part of something. For example, a salesman may talk and talk about his product without saying the price. You get down to brass tacks when you say “it sounds good, but how much does it cost”.

Words expert John found this expression come from sellers in ships. They clean the bottom of the boat when they have removed all the dirt, they are down to the brass tacks, the couple pieces that hold it together. So if we get down to brass tacks, we can prevent rip off and bogus ways of earning money in that jungle out there, and some good luck will help to.