MONEY SAID ASPIRING (MEANING)

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I'd go to the University of Arkansas, which had an open admissions policy for Arkansas high school students, and where the smart money said aspiring politicians should go anyway.

In the above sentence, what is the meaning of 'money said aspiring' and the grammatical form?

Khoff · Accepted Answer

"money said aspiring" is not the natural division of the sentence. Try it like this:

the smart money / said [that] / aspiring politicians should go [to the university of Arkansas]

The University of Arkansas . . . [is] . . . where the smart money (if people were betting, the smartest people would be betting money on this choice) said [that] aspiring politicians should go.

In other words, knowledgable people said that would-be politicians should go to the University of Arkansas.

Does this help?

Rishonly · Answer

Thanks, Khoff. I guess I almost got it;nonetheless, I would appreciate if you can give me a couple of more examples with similar construction.

Khoff · Answer

Krish -- I googled "smart money says" to find some examples for you, and discovered that now Smart Money is the name of a magazine about investments. In the general sense, "smart money" means people who have good judgement about investments or bets - in other words, people who make good predictions and invest their money wisely.

"aspiring politicians" are people who aspire (hope) to become politicians.

so:

Smart money says that more and more aspiring grammarians are reading English Forums.

Rishonly · Answer

Thanks a lot, Khoff. Now,  I understand it clearly.

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