英语词汇worth his weight in gold的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	worth his weight in gold
词源	worth his weight in gold. At present gold prices a person weighing 150 pounds who was literally worth his weight in gold would be worth nearly $1 million. To say someone is worth his weight in gold is to say he is an extremely valuable person to the enterprise at hand. The phrase has been traced back to at least 1705, when Joseph Addison, writing about a statue in Italy, said: “It is esteemed worth its weight in gold.”
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