It takes too much dore- mi to live in this part of town.Do you have a little do-re-me you could loan me?
do-re-mi
⇨ do-re-mi; dough-rey-menoun money. Extends from DOUGH (money), punning on 'do-re-mi/doh-ray-mi' in the 'tonic sol-fa' system of music. Most strongly associated with Woody Guthrie's 1937 song '(If You Ain't Got the) Do Re Mi' US, 1926
do-re-mi
slang Money. Primarily heard in US. Come on, you know I don't make enough do-re-mi to go on an extravagant trip like that.
do-re-me
verb
See do-re-mi
do-re-mi
and do-re-me (ˈdoˈreˈmi)
n. money. (From dough.) It takes too much do-re-mi to live in this part of town.