Cliché: raking in the money (or dough)

Meaning: making money fast. Use examples: money; dough.
Rewrite 1: raking in the riches
Rewrite 2: hauling^vi2 in the cash
Rewrite 3: trucking in the dough
Rewrite 4: making money by the bulldozerⁿ¹ load
Rewrite 5: picking cash from the trees

Comment: Think big volumes and easy transport. Rewrite 5 is a play on the cliché “Money doesn’t grow on trees” – this says, “Sometimes it seems to, and I’m grabbing it as fast as I can.”

More reading about clichés
What I found when I googled “clichés”:
• August 12, 2001: “…Wordmaster – the language of clichés.”
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