princely sum
Extremely generous payment
A princely sum is an impressively large amount of money, often used ironically for amounts that are actually small: They offered me the princely sum of fifty dollars for a day's work.
The phrase invokes royal wealth, but contemporary usage almost always carries sarcasm about inadequate compensation.
- exorbitantUnreasonably high, as costs
- lavishAbundant beyond necessity
- windfallUnanticipated lucky gain
- fortuneWealth or destiny
- small fortuneSubstantial amount of money
enormous · astronomical · substantial · expensive · munificence · luxurious · sizeable · king's ransom · sum · big bucks · bounty · jackpot · hefty · lump sum · inheritance · grandiose · affluence · opulence
monetary magnitude
princely sumpittance
Insultingly small payment
pocket change · peanuts · small change · chicken feed · chump change
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