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In the novel, Tevis writes: His skill on the arena of green cloth—cloth that was itself the color of money—could never be only pretense. So the idea is making the connection between the green baize ...

D. A. Hosek's quote from the novel is interesting and relevant, but fails to note that it riffing on an old phrase. The Colour of Money The colour of money is a phrase that is often used in the ...

A compendium of examples I have recently stumbled across a couple uses of the idiom, and I've found them enlightening. Here's a list, which I will add to over time: Said by a loan shark to a third ...