It is not about filthy lucre.
Do they despise filthy lucre?
They tried to pretend that while they were concerned with the quality of education, all that the teachers were interested in was filthy lucre.
I look upon that as a lucre phantasm.
It has always been on a filthy lucre basis instead of being on the basis of an appeal to good feelings.
The answer is that we come back again to filthy lucre.
Men are not coming forward, as they have done for the last three weeks, for lucre.
It is "filthy lucre" that we want really.