golden egg

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A source of consistent profit or advantage, or the profit gained by such advantage.
    — Here’s golden eggs in plenty, why not the Golden Age? — The time the world is waiting, the day-dream of the sage; […] The golden eggs of Eight-Seven, after four years’ incubation, Should hatch a brood to scratch the good from out the whole creation,
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see golden, egg.

词形变化

golden eggs plural

词源

Allusion to “The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs”, one of Aesop’s Fables. Attested from the 18th century. Compare golden goose, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
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