line one's pockets
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To accumulate personal wealth, especially in an illegal or morally objectionable manner.
Example Sentences
- "The men who have lined their pockets with public plunder and made the Municipal Government a nest of thieves—will any one in his sober senses believe that in all these men did they were doing more than struggling for a continuance of their own power?"
- "And now, after lining his pockets with other people's money, he kidnaps a white girl belonging to an orchestra."
- "In most cases, the scofflaws didn't pay their corporate income tax or company owners lined their pockets with the IRS payroll taxes they'd collected from their employees."
- "However the Labour Party and rail unions regard the move as a step closer to full nationalisation. TSSA General Secretary Manuel Cortes said: "The ONS has candidly exposed the truth about our railways. They are now in public ownership. Grant Shapps must now take direct control of running them, rather than continue to line the pockets of privateers.""