Need a little help with vocab

[Anonymous]

Pocket, informally, has the same meaning as money and is usually used as a singular noun; however, I don't know if it is possible to say

I have no pocket=I have no money or
I have small pocket=I have little money?

[Pete]

>Pocket, informally, has the same meaning as money and is usually used as a singular noun; however, I don't know if it is possible to say
>
>I have no pocket=I have no money or
>I have small pocket=I have little money?

-- I don't think these sound at all natural. The use of "pocket" to mean money isn't very common, and I think it only sounds right in specific cases.

-- I have heard phrases like,
- I can pay for that out of pocket = I have enough money with me to pay for that.
- That company has deep pockets = That company has much money.
- Don't go into that store with empty pockets = ... without money.

I have no pocket=I have no money or
I have small pocket=I have little money?[/quote]

[kenryuakuma]

they are the only phrases that could be used in English, nothing more, aren't they? But I just wonder if it is ok to say that he is going to have a big pocket if he get promoted?

[Pete]

they are the only phrases that could be used in English, nothing more, aren't they?
-- I'm sure it can be used in other ways, but it's really not a very common idiom.

But I just wonder if it is ok to say that he is going to have a big pocket if he get promoted?

-- Certainly you can say it. I'm not certain that you will be understood by everyone.

-- I was thinking a bit more about this use of "pocket" to mean money. In addition to meaning "money", to me there is a bit of the idea that it is money that the owner is willing to spend (since he has it available in his figurative pocket.)