宵よい越ごしの銭ぜには持もたない

expression

not keeping money overnight; spending everything one earns in a day

Proverbial phrase describing a carefree, spendthrift attitude, often associated with Edo-period Tokyoites who lived for the moment. Literally 'not holding onto money past the evening'.

• 江え戸どっ子こは宵よい越ごしの銭ぜには持もたないと言いわれている。

  It is said that true Tokyoites don't keep their money overnight.

• 彼かれは宵よい越ごしの銭ぜには持もたないタイプで、給きゅう料りょう日びにはいつも全ぜん部ぶ使つかってしまう。

  He's the type who spends everything he earns in a day; on payday he always uses it all up.