Where there`s muck there`s money! what do you think of that quote?

Question

Where there`s muck there`s money! what do you think of that quote?

Answer 1

Could mean:

Soil/ dirt is money for retail value

And i kinda like it because its quite querky.

Answer 2

yes a true saying?drug money and all the muck some people do to get money?

Answer 3

That's true babe i'm a muckraker the pays terrible but what a job.

Answer 4

Reminds me of an old Yorkshire saying of Where theres Muck theres Brass.Means not being afraid to get stuck in and get your hands dirty to earn a few bob.

Answer 5

Well ive given up searching through the dog poo on the streets...........

Answer 6

maybe,its a somebody thats muck,making dirty money.

justa thought!

Answer 7

It's very true.  

Answer 8

It has all sorts of applications -- mining, organic gardening, p**n, journalistic sleaze, mud bath therapy.....The more I ponder, the more I like the saying!

Answer 9

I think it's like where there are dirty jobs to be done there's money to be made

Answer 10

wtf**uck is a muck that would be my response if anyone said your quote

Answer 11

It's "Where there's muck there's brass."

Scrap metal dealers are doing very nicely right now due to the demand from India and China.

Answer 12

I think nothing of it.

Answer 13

think it s a bit irish me gran always said it

Answer 14

It sounds like the Rupert Murdoch creed.

Answer 15

Ture for people in dodgy deelings, not so true for the toilet cleaners and road sweepers and such like x

Answer 16

quite true,.

Answer 17

i think it means that people will pay for clean.

Answer 18

Quite true.I don't trust banks,and keep £2500 up me a**s!

Answer 19

It's true. You can grow anything in muck and sell it at your local farmers market.

Answer 20

Being a geordie lass I use the quote quite often - in the sense that getting dirty (grafting) makes money.

Or - horse muck is great for growing veg......

Answer 21

yep its true one mans tat is another mans treasure...  ask my mate Les who works on the bins.

Answer 22

I once dropped a half crown into a slurry pit. So, there's some truth in the saying.  But shouldn't it be, 'Where there's muck, there's brass'?    

Answer 23

Where there are dirty jobs to be done there is money to be made.

Origin

Brass has been used as the name of copper and bronze coins, and later of all forms of money, in the UK since at least the 16th century. Joseph Hall's Virgidemiarum, 1597 includes:

"Shame that the muses should be bought and sold For every peasant's brass."

'Where there's muck there's brass' is a 20th century expression which originated in Yorkshire, England where brass is still used as a slang term for money. The expression is rarely used nowadays, although writers sometimes call on it when they want to establish a character as a blunt Yorkshireman. By 'muck' any form of dirt or manure may be implied, depending on context.

John Ray expressed the notion in A collection of English proverbs, 1678:

"Muck and money go together."

The expression was preceded by the 'where there's muck there's money' variant, which dates from the mid 19th century.