英语词汇almighty dollar的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	almighty dollar
词源	almighty dollar. Washington Irving coined the phrase the al- mighty dollar in his sketch called “The Creole Village,” first published in 1836: “The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout the land, seems to have no gen- uine devotees in these peculiar villages.” But Ben Jonson had used “almighty gold” in a similar sense more than 200 years be- fore him: “that for which all virtue now is sold, / And almost every vice—almighty gold.”
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