lunch money
Schoolyard bully's demand
Lunch money is cash given to a child for buying a meal at school.
In the phrase steal someone's lunch money, it evokes the classic schoolyard bully shaking down smaller kids—extended to any situation where someone exploits a weaker party: These fees are just the bank stealing your lunch money.
- school cafeteriaStudent dining facility
- cafeteriaSelf-service dining facility
- sandwichFilling between bread slices
- milk cartonCardboard dairy vessel
- lunchtimeNoon eating period
cash · meal · allowance · schoolyard · petty cash · spare change · peer pressure · sharing · borrowing · bullying · lending · recess · field trip · currency · pocket change · payment · coins · bills
- childhoodchildhood, baby, child, kid, toys
- kid moneyallowance, piggy bank, savings jar, penny jar, change jar
- school cafeteriaschool cafeteria, cafeteria, trays, serving line, meal trays
- school lunchpizza, chicken nuggets, mac and cheese, chocolate milk, french fries
- small expensestip, gratuity, toll, fare, fee
- allowancesallowance, weekly allowance, housing allowance, clothing allowance, food allowance
lunch moneyprotection money
Payment extracted through threats
extortion · stolen cash · shakedown · ransom
lunch moneyfortune
Wealth or destiny
life savings · wealth · serious money · big bucks · nest egg
lunch, money, lunches, luncheon, luncheonette, moneys, monies, moneyed, monetary