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filthy lucre
noun
- money:
to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of filthy lucre1
Idioms and Phrases
Money; originally, money obtained dishonestly. For example, She didn't like the job but loved the filthy lucre in the form of her weekly paycheck . This term comes from the Bible (Titus 1:11), where it refers to those who teach wrongly for the sake of money. In time it came to be used loosely, and usually jokingly, for money in general, and in the mid-1900s gave rise to the jocular slang term the filthy for 鈥渕oney.鈥 Although both versions may be dying out, the expression filthy rich , for 鈥渆xtremely wealthy,鈥 survives.Example Sentences
It鈥檚 kind of like saying they swapped the family soul for fame and filthy lucre, so tough luck.
Then she tried a child鈥檚 story, which she could easily have disposed of if she had not been mercenary enough to demand filthy lucre for it.
But much of the filthy lucre given by foreign powers came in the currency of affirmed vanity.
If the one is vilified for its worship of filthy lucre, the other is tarred by its worship of frivolous lam茅.
鈥淏y the way. Meant to ask. How does your pop earn his filthy lucre?鈥
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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