golden touch

Meaning

1. Synonym of Midas touch (“the ability to achieve financial reward (or, more generally, success) easily and consistently”).

Etymology / origin

From the Greek legend of King Midas, related in chapter XI of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 C.E.), whom Dionysus (the god of, among other things, wine and winemaking) gave the power to turn things to gold by touching them. Compare Midas touch.

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