目め腐くされ金がね

noun

pittance; measly sum; trifling amount of money

Colloquial and derogatory term for a very small, almost insulting amount of money. Literally 'eye-rotting money', implying it's so little it hurts to look at.

• こんなめくされがねじゃ、生せい活かつできないよ。

  I can't live on such a pittance.

• 彼かれはめくされがねで働はたらかされている。

  He's being made to work for a measly sum.