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More than enough money for what is required or expected, as in After they paid off the creditors, they still had money to burn . This hyperbolic expression implies one has so much that one can afford to burn it. [Late 1800s] This sense of the verb burn is occasionally used in other phrases, such as time to burn (“more than enough time”), but not very often.Advertisement
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