payday
The payday in former times was the date on which the employees of a company's earnings were paid in cash. The wage cones were characteristic of payday . Today the wages are transferred directly to the employees' bank accounts .
Colloquially, the content of the pay packet is often referred to as payday ; for example, “he got the payday” means that he was paid the monthly wage - or “he has lost the payday”, that he lost the wage packet (with the “payday” in it).
In connection with the payday, anecdotes are often told that are supposed to prove the careless handling of the suddenly available money - for example that the husbands often went to a restaurant after the wages were paid out and were picked up there by their cursing wives To prevent the contents of the wage packet from being largely spent on alcohol.
