"A money-spinner" nghĩa là gì?

Banksy exhibition in Bristol. Photo courtesy Heather Cowper.

'A money-spinner' có từ spinner là bánh xe quay tơ, vì thế 'a money-spinner' là một doanh nghiệp hay sản phẩm mang lại rất nhiều tiền cho chủ sở hữu (cỗ máy xay tiền).

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Cookery books are becoming a real money-spinner for the publishing industry.

Wall Street now has its equivalent of a reality TV star. A clip from the BBC of a self-described trader admitting to dreaming of financial doom as a money spinner has spread like wildfire over the Internet. The would-be Gordon Gekko, Alessio Rastani - an ersatz trader, doesn’t work for a Wall Street firm, but his vulgar amorality offers a description of trading that has struck a chord with a public smoldering over bank bailouts.

The mural depicts the British reality-TV celebrity and cancer victim Goody's head with a pound sign branded on it and vultures circling above with the words "This is England" accompanying it. "Clearly designed in the style of the artist, who is one of the art world's most famous names, it focuses on how her illness has turned into a huge money spinner."

A plant poison becomes a money-spinner: Red yeast rice is a very small plant in a valley in the north of China, which has so many enemies locally as they find the rice tasty. This rice produces a poison, lovastatin, which kills all foolish predators. This poison was seen to be blocking an important enzyme known as the HMG-CoA reductase. This enzyme is responsible for cholesterol production in the liver. The pharma lobby found out that, lovastatin, in smaller doses, blocks cholesterol production in our liver.

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