(British) the purchasing power of or the business generated by elderly people.
(British) the purchasing power of or the business generated by elderly people.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(British) the perceived purchasing power of Britain’s Black and Asian minorities as a group.
(chiefly, UK, Canada, Australia, idiomatic) The collective political, economic, and social influence of senior citizens, especially when they are mobilized by a common interest.
(UK) The business generated by providing goods and services to the gay community.
(Britain) A person in receipt of an old age pension, a senior citizen.
A British idiom expressing high confidence that something is true or likely to happen, essentially saying you would bet a pound against just a penny, meaning the odds are overwhelmingly in favor. Used to emphasize certainty about a prediction or claim. More colorful than simply saying almost certainly but functionally equivalent. The asymmetric financial metaphor makes the confidence tangible and specific.