filthy lucre

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌfɪlθi ˈl(j)uːkə/    美 /ˌfɪlθi ˈlukəɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Money, especially if obtained dishonestly. derogatory,humorous,idiomatic,often,uncountable
    — For there are many diſobedient and talkers off vanitie⸝ and diſceavers off myndes⸝ namly they off the circumciſion⸝ whoſe mouthes muſt be ſtopped⸝ which pervert whole houſes⸝ teachynge thyngꝭ [thynges] which they ought nott⸝ becauſe off filthy lucre.

词源

From filthy + lucre, which appears in the Tyndale Bible, and four times in the King James Version of the Bible, as a calque of Ancient Greek αἰσχρόν κέρδος (aiskhrón kérdos) and related terms such as αἰσχροκερδής (aiskhrokerdḗs, “[a person] given to filthy lucre”): see the quotations and Citations:filthy lucre.
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