almighty dollar

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Definition of almighty dollar in English Turkish dictionary

the almighty dollar
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English - English
The dollar, satirically characterized as a being a god

1836: The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking houses and other pious shrines, there is no knowing how long the inhabitants may remain in their present state of contented poverty.— Washington Irving The Creole Village, in Knickerbocker Magazine (November 1836), later re-published in Wolfert's Roost's and Other Papers (1855).

almighty dollar

    Hyphenation

    al·migh·ty dol·lar

    Turkish pronunciation

    ôlmayti dôlır

    Pronunciation

    /ôlˈmītē ˈdôlər/ /ɔːlˈmaɪtiː ˈdɔːlɜr/

    Etymology

    () Most sources hold this to be a coinage of Washington Irving, alluding to "Almighty God", although a Philadelphia newspaper also used the phrase at approximately the same time and Ben Jonson had used "almighty gold" in 1616 in Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland.
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