The phrase means that people who are not wise with their money are likely to lose it quickly to bad investments, unwise purchases, or scams.
The phrase is commonly attributed to the English poet Thomas Tusser, who included it in his 1573 poem "Five Hundreth Pointes of Good Husbandrie".
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