Marlene Curtis Jan 7, 2011:

Serious money = serious amount of money "Serious money" (a lot of money) is widely used in the USA, and there is no need to add "amount of".

Nick Taylor Jan 7, 2011:

coloquialism maybe its a colloquialism where i come from but the phrase "serious money" (without - amount of) always refers to (depending on your point of view) quite a lot of money. Counterfeit money in the same environment is referred to as "funny money". Notwithstanding it is not uncommon to use "real money" as a term for a lot of money rather than "pea-nuts" - a small amount of money. Hence - (do) you want to make some "real money" doesn't refer to working for the Royal Mint. maybe its just where I come from and it is not globally interpreted this way.

axies Jan 7, 2011:

serious money is different from a serious amount.. Thank you for your comments.
serious money and ''a serious amount of money'' have different connotations. I am aware of what it means from both points of view and in relation to Nick's posted link. I am not disputing that you could be right. what I am disputing is that there is a degree of ambiguity in this phrase as well as in the entire text; above all one must look at what comes before the sentences, before the full stop.
"Serious money. So in context, $50 blackjack wasn't a lot of money...'' asks
What context are we talking about? That is, what are we comparing the $50 blackjack with? Is this ''serious money'' because he/she shouldn't gamble money that was to buy food for the wife and kids, pay rent, taxes or even pay the undertaker?... We do not know this.
Sorry if these are no better that the examples I gave before but let me just finish by saying that serious money is spent in serious gambling by serious people!...

Nick Taylor Jan 5, 2011:

http://zambianchronicle.com/?p=1788
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2007/07/10/want_to_make_...
http://www.3daudioinc.com/3db/showthread.php?21013-Metric-Ha...

Marlene Curtis Jan 5, 2011:

Serious money It couldn't possibly carry that meaning in English...Serious money is a colloquial expression that means "a lot of money" . Money can not possibly be serious or not serious, meaning coming from dishonest sources.

axies Jan 5, 2011:

Serious money Answers are ambiguous. Translation depends on what is said/written before ,b>Serious money otherwise it could also insinuate that it came from other than honest sources or that wasn't fake money etc...