where there's muck there's brass

muck | American Dictionary

muck
noun[ U ]
us/mʌk/
wet, sticky dirt:
It was hard to walk in the muck.

Examples of muck

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I just can't bear mucking around with dirty greasy things.
If, like, someone's mucking a round, it's that whole, we were talking about it yesterday, the global awareness of the whole room.
Progressive social policies are constantly condemned for mucking up the market test of private virtue.
Each morning most of the manure was removed; the stables were only mucked out every third day and the sawdust replaced.
An evening party becomes the locus of writing; the poet mucks in with the gambler, sportsman and parson.
I'm mucking about, of course.
Everybody mucks in and does their bit.
Experimental practices such as "mucking around" and noticing surprising aspects of a computer's behavior can generate important changes in scientists' understanding of the systems they study.
Allowing the child to muck about, or does it mean free to express himself in his own childlike way, and not ape the adult's way.
Collective action (or its despised apotheosis, socialism) would only muck up capitalism's great test of personal virtue.
However much such artists might try to render reality, their eyes drew a rose-tinted veil over the real country with its muck and smells.
Finally, when material is fully broken down it is spread on arable land using muck spreaders at (16 tonnes an acre).
You can come up and let yourself go- shout about and that and muck about.
The vice of fauvelling and the muck of avarice are now occupying the throne and the highest position in the court.
Perhaps the least of the disadvantages of the black economy is that it mucks up the national statistics quite impossibly.
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