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Deep pocket

noun

A source of substantial wealth (usually plural).

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"Deep pocket" Quotes from Famous Books

... actually moving towards the door when a thought struck her. Tearing a bit of paper from the fly-leaf of a book on the table, she took from the deep pocket of her coat a little pencil, and scribbled a message—as short, almost, as that which had announced to Leonard her ...

— The Making of a Soul • Kathlyn Rhodes

... long black mustache, a minstrel-stripe shirt, and a ninety-four-carat diamond in a red cravat, that for one cent deposited in the slot the machine would dispense its valuable sartorial advice. The countryman dug the required coin from the depths of a deep pocket and dropped it in the slot. Instantly the machine delivered a card on ...

— Good Stories from The Ladies Home Journal • Various

... were blotted out by mist and fog. Long flashes of white fire leaped from them, and the heavy boom of cannon followed. Then all would be still again. She passed down the whitewashed, matted, sodden corridor, and drew out the heavy key of the chapel door from a deep pocket under her ...

— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... once more into that deep pocket, and as she did so she noticed that the old man's left boot was flapping open, and that there were two buttons off his coat. Her mind was swiftly calculating: "It is more than seven weeks to quarter day. Of course I can't afford it, but I must ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... Mr. Peaslee, and dropping the box into his deep pocket, departed. Half a dozen eggs more to get ...

— The Calico Cat • Charles Miner Thompson