Burn a hole in one’s pocket
(PW) money to be spent quickly
The bonus he received must have burned a hole in his pocket. He ended up buying a car the next day.
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Money burns a hole in someone's pocket.
An expression decribing someone who spends money as soon as it is earned. Sally can't seem to save anything. Money burns a hole in her pocket. If money burns a hole in your pocket, you never have any for emergencies.
(About)
Definition: money that someone wants to spend quickly
Explanation: Used when talking about the reckless spending of money
Examples: I just got paid today and this money is burning a hole in my pocket. - Let's go out and have some fun, I've got some money that is burning a hole in my pocket.
(dictionary)
to urge one to spend money quickly: his inheritance was burning a hole in his pocket.
(phraseFinder)
(a.) "It was only a bit of change, but it was plainly burning a hole in his pocket." As though it were something hot, he wanted to pull the money out--and get rid of it by spending it. This can be used of almost anything that a new owner wants to use or spend right away. In the 18th century it was sometimes expressed as "burning in one's pocket" or something similar. Two examples cited by the OED are "1740 MRS. DELANY Autobiog. & Corr. (1861) II. 165 The post brought me your letter, which burnt in my pocket. 1768 TUCKER Lt. Nat. I. 152 Children..cannot rest till they get rid of their money, or, as we say, it burns in their pockets."
The more modern version appeared at least as early as the 19th century: "1857 TROLLOPE Three Clerks II. ix. 198 How was she to give him the purse? It was burning a hole in her pocket till she could do so." (Example quoted in the OED, s.v. burn.)
