print money

English

Verb

print money (third-person singular simple present prints money, present participle printing money, simple past and past participle printed money)

1. (intransitive, informal) To be extremely profitable.
   • 2014 July 9, Megan Garber, “When Harry Met eHarmony”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     Commercially, rom-coms are rom-bombing. “After a decade of essentially printing money,” Chris Orr put it last year, “the genre abruptly ran out of box-office steam in 2012.”

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see print,‎ money.