rake it in

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rake it in (third-person singular simple present rakes it in, present participle raking it in, simple past and past participle raked it in)

1. (slang) To make a lot of money.
   • 2008, The Observer, 5 Oct 08:

     Budget hotels are raking it in as business people feel the crunch.

   • 2006, The Guardian, 12 Aug 06:

     Alas, geriatrics and convalescent homes, however regal, don't rake it in like moneyed metrosexuals.

   • 1997, Stanley Lombardo, tr. Homer, The Iliad, page 169:

     [I've l]ooted them all, brought back heirlooms
     By the ton, and handed it all over
     To Atreus' son, who hung back in camp
     Raking it in and distributing damn little.

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