Today's saying

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys

 

 

Meaning: An employer who pays low wages will have bad staff.
Note: peanut (noun) = a seed like a hard pea, typically eaten by monkeys | peanuts (noun) = a very small sum of money | pay peanuts (verb) = pay very low wages | monkey (noun) = a small to medium-sized, human-like animal living in trees in tropical countries

Variety: This is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too.Quick Quiz

"If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys" because

monkeys like peanuts good workers like good wages bad workers like peanuts answer: b.