Midas touch

短语

点石成金（书名）

发音

US /ˌmaɪdəs ˈtʌt͡ʃ/
AU
UK /ˌmaɪdəs ˈtʌt͡ʃ/

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    The ability to achieve financial reward (or, more generally, success) from one's actions easily and consistently.

    习语
  2. 2.

    The ability to turn everything one touches into gold.

    宗教 神话 哲学

词源

From the Greek legend of King Midas, related in chapter XI of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 C.E.), whom Dionysus (the god of, among other things, wine and winemaking) gave the power to turn things to gold by touching them.

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