Where there’s muck there’s brass: Why domestic services startups are cleaning up in 2014

The idiom ‘where there’s muck, there’s brass‘, quite simply, means that if there’s a dirty or unpleasant job to be done, there’s money to be made. While the notion of ‘brass’ meaning money has been around since the 18th Century, and the essential elements of the expression were penned by John Ray in A Collection of English Proverbs in 1678 (“Muck and money go together”) that actual saying is a 20th Century creation that grew from the 19th Century expression “Where there’s muck, there’s money”. History lesson now over, the idea of paying someone else to take care of the...

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