The phrase "neat sum" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to refer to a tidy or concise amount of money. You can use it in a sentence like "She received a neat sum of money from her inheritance" or "The company made a neat sum of profit this quarter."
When he pulls together an "interesting bunch" of friends to storm a party or a launch event, he charges a neat sum of money.
Earl Carroll's announcement that front row seats for his new "Vanities" will cost $100, plus tax reminds us of the time the ticket agents were relieved of a neat sum of money just when they had expected to profit heavily.
Pandit also landed the neat sum of $165 million when Citigroup bought his hedge fund, Old Lane, in 2007, setting him on the path to taking over the whole company.
The cost of climate change rarely appears as one neat sum on a ledger, it doesn't come itemised on your shopping bill, but it's exacted through trillions of tiny tolls and tariffs on almost everything you can conceive of: food prices, insurance premiums, defence budgets, welfare, utility bills, even the house prices Quentin's colleagues are so inordinately obsessed with.
Saleeby's strongly worded articles were condemned by the medical press as "mischievous claptrap," but they did succeed in raising a neat sum for the new hospital.
It gives nothing away, even to those who can still be taken in by Mr. Levin's multiple whammies, to quote a neat sum-up by a minor character, Porter Milgrim, a lawyer.
That is a neat summing up of an exceptional career — and an enticing exhibition.
"THE LIPS OF MARILYN MONROE and the eyes of Caligula" was a neat summing up of the "power woman" presented by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
The result is her most famous poem, a mixture of a higher Dorothy Parker with (in the commanding aside to herself, as she struggles to write) Gerard Manley Hopkins, the neat summing up of a life, titled "One Art": The art of losing isn't hard to master; So many things seem filled with the intent To be lost that their loss is no disaster.
The Brooklyn trio Highly Suspect, meanwhile, perform the neat trick of summing up their inclusion in this category via their name.
This neat Venn diagram sums up the sweet spot for humor: This jibes nicely with the cliché that tragedy plus time equals comedy, because the distance of time makes threats less threatening.
