🗓️ Idiom: Rake It In (v)
💬 Meaning
- To earn or receive a large amount of money, especially with little effort.
- Often used to describe people or businesses that are making significant profits quickly and easily.
🧠 Example Sentences
- The new app is so popular that the developers are raking it in.
- Ever since she started selling handmade jewelry online, she’s been raking it in.
- The company is raking it in thanks to its viral product launch.
🏛️ Origin
The phrase originates from the image of using a rake to gather leaves or money from the ground. Just as a rake easily gathers up piles, the idiom came to describe effortlessly collecting large amounts of money.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
That café on the corner is always packed—they must be __________.
Answer
raking it in
2. Choose the correct meaning of “rake it in”:
A) Lose money from poor investments
B) Save money by cutting costs
C) Make a lot of money quickly and easily
Answer
C) Make a lot of money quickly and easily
3. Rewrite the sentence using: Rake it In
“The startup earned huge profits during its first quarter.”
Answer
The startup raked it in during its first quarter.
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Rob is a CELTA qualified English teacher with 15 years of international experience. He has a BSc and PGDip from Loughborough and St Andrews universities in the UK. He has taught in Thailand and Saudi Arabia and now works with professionals worldwide.
