Meaning

1 senses

  1. (US, derogatory, idiomatic, singular, singular only)The dollar, satirically characterized as a god.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. They worship the almighty dollar.

    ruОни поклоняются всемогущему доллару. — Selena777

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Origin

Most sources hold this to be a coinage of Washington Irving, alluding to "Almighty God", a

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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Forms

plural: almighty dollars

See also

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