English Explanatory Dictionary

almighty dollar

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The dollar, satirically characterized as a god.

Pronunciation

en-au-almighty dollar.ogg

Word forms

almighty dollar the almighty dollar

Etymology

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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