词汇 | money talks |
词源 | money talks. Now a folk saying rather than slang, money talks means that wealth is power, or money buys anything. Though it is probably older, no one has been able to trace the phrase back before 1910. J. D. Salinger used it in Catcher in the Rye (1950): “In New York, boy, money really talks—I’m not kidding.” |
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