Though I used to write cryptic puzzles for pin money, I don’t think I ever wrote any as tricky and compelling as “The Underlying Chris.”

“The new villain was the woman who worked for ‘pin money’” — extra cash they didn’t need, Collins writes.

Writing for Schoolsweek, former government adviser on education Jonathan Simons said Mr Hammond's announcement was phrased "in the manner of which a 1950s husband may have given his wife some pin money".

While Boulogne relied on pin money, Calais relied on needle – or more exactly bobbin – money.

The lower cost of living there than in, say, California means freelance bughunting can be a sensible career, not just a source of pin money.