money talks

谚语
中文释义
英 /ˈmʌn.i tɔːks/    美 /ˈmʌn.i tɔks/

英文释义

谚语
  1. Money or moneyed interests have power.
    — He illustrated the fact of money talking in the case of Mrs. Rita Warren who successfully stopped the showing of 1001 Danish Delights in a local Norwell theatre, yet was promptly arrested when attempting the same picketing in front of the more profitable Ben Sack "57" theatre to stop the showing of The Exorcist.

词源

19th century, from earlier forms such as gold speaks (1666, in full, “Man prates, but gold speaks.”), as translation from Italian by Giovanni Torriano, in Piazza Universale di Proverbi Italiani: or, A Common Place of Italian Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 179.
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