On the other hand, these examples would not sit well with most people: This house deserves a lot of money. It raises the question what the house did to "deserve" money. The sentence indicates I should give money to the house, not to buy it, but because somehow the house deserves to be donated funds. An employee is worth money for their job.

The idiom "well worth the ride" is usually used for a journey made on horseback, bike, motorcycle, or vehicle. But what I mean in the following example is "ride" as a journey on foot (e.g. mountain

phrase meaning - Idiomatic usage of "well worth the ride" to refer to a ...

But using worth, that transformation doesn't work: * Buying this phone is worth. Adding to the previous answer. Here is a definition of worth: Merriam-Webster worth preposition 2: deserving of well worth the effort So, worth is a preposition in this use. The M-W definition has an adjective sense, but it is marked as archaic, so it's irrelevant ...

Perl may well be the best thing to happen to the Unix programming environment in years; it is worth the price of admission to Linux alone. [] And here is the footnote: []Truth be told, Perl also exists now on other systems, such as Windows. Many Windows system administrators claim it to be their preferred language.

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