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get one's money's worth
Idioms and Phrases
Receive good value, as in They performed four extra songs, so we really got our money's worth , or We got our money's worth at the beach—there wasn't a cloud in the sky . This expression often but not always refers to a monetary expenditure.Example Sentences
Not only is there complex terminology — those looking into the issue will soon encounter esoterica like the Nyquist frequency — but it can be unclear just what equipment is necessary to get one’s money’s worth.
Not even the all but all-powerful desire to get one's money's worth, since it had once been paid, could contend against the blush of shame that rose on the cheek of the reader.
But we have lingered full long enough at the public ball, though indeed it is quite the correct thing, you know, to go early and stay late at such, and get one's money's worth for one's money.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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