Monkey

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Five hundred pounds.

Cockney rhyming sang, though it is unclear what to do with “five hundred pounds” rhymes with “monkey”. So perhaps just “Cockney slang”.

That awful FT book about derivatives doesn’t (quite) cost you a monkey — only a ton — but for the good it does, it might as well do.

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