WordNet
n. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, wad, whole lot, whole slew]
Usage examples of "tidy sum".
Fortunately in 1928 Lady Wiltshire was left by an aunt the income for life on quite a tidy sum.
But not to fear, my good woman, I've a tidy sum tucked away, enough to pay for your best room.
Here, in Chwan-tsing, he hoped to sell her for a tidy sum to the chieftain of one of the Mongolian tribes across the border.
Item by item I calculated what I possessed, and it came to a tidy sum.
Housekeepers in wealthy households sell used tea leaves for a tidy sum, then girls in the tea trade dye the leaves so they look new and sell them in the poorer parts of town.