Midas touch

专有名词
中文释义
英 /ˌmaɪdəs ˈtʌt͡ʃ/    美 /ˌmaɪdəs ˈtʌt͡ʃ/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. The ability to turn everything one touches into gold. Greek,literally
  2. The ability to achieve financial reward (or, more generally, success) from one's actions easily and consistently. idiomatic

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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