mad money

Ultrasuede minibags "are just the solution for waste." And for crime. Most minis hardly hold more than mad money and a comb.

Such an expression is mad money, noted as early as 1922 by Howard J. Savage (Dialect Notes 5:148) at the end of an article on Bryn Mawr slang. Savage's definition is 'money a girl carries in case she has a row with her escort and wishes to go home alone.'