watch your steps
"I can tell" is an idiom used to say that you know something after you see it, touch it or hear it, recognise it, you can recognise the difference, change, characteristic or particularity1. In English (US), "I can tell" means that the speaker has already come to the conclusion that has been spoken2. For example, the speaker says "I can tell!" to show that the speaker has noticed the hard work put into the presentation2.
Literally "a wad of cash" means "a thick pile of dollar bills". Back in 1930, that is what it meant. If you had a wad of cash in your pocket, your pocket was full. Nowadays it can mean that, or it can just mean "a lot of cash".
Did you happen to notice a second bright light?
Did you happen to notice the second I left everything crumbled *você parou para pensar*
thrift
[θrɪft]
NOUN
the quality of using money and other resources carefully and not wastefully:
"the values of thrift and self-reliance"
SEMELHANTE:
providence
prudence
thriftiness
canniness
US
another term for savings and loan.
a European plant which forms low-growing tufts of slender leaves with rounded pink flower heads, growing chiefly on sea cliffs and mountains. Also called sea pink.