golden touch
Syllables: gold·en touchUK/ˌɡəʊldən ˈtʌt͡ʃ/US/ˌɡoʊldən ˈtʌt͡ʃ/
golden touch noun: synonym of Midas touch (“the ability to achieve financial reward (or, more generally, success) easily and consistently”).
Noun
golden touch (plural golden touches)
- Synonym of Midas touch (“the ability to achieve financial reward (or, more generally, success) easily and consistently”).
- In fine, his [Nathaniel Hawthorne's] golden touch is as unfailing as was that of Midas, and transmutes whatever he lays hand upon. [...] [H]e so transforms incidents and transactions of the most trivial character, as to render them grand, pathetic, or grotesque. [...] His golden touch, we would...1853 January, “Art. VIII.—1. The House of the Seven Gables; a Romance. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields. 1851. 16mo. pp. 344. 2. The Blithedale Romance. By Nathaniel Hawthorne....
- On May 8, 1945—V.E. Day—John Hersey won the Pulitzer Prize for his first novel, A Bell for Adano. Twenty years later, with the appearance of his eleventh book, White Lotus, he has been told that while he once aspired to have a silver tongue, he has been given instead a golden touch; that instead of...1966, David Sanders, “John Hersey: War Correspondent into Novelist”, in Ray B[roadus] Browne, Donald M. Winkelman, Allen Hayman, editors, New Voices in American Studies, West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue...
- Synonyms:
- Midas touch
Examples of golden touch in a sentence
- The golden touch, in a modest kind of way." He looked around his sitting-room, as if to say there were golden touches and golden touches.1986, Robert Barnard, Political Suicide (Collins Crime Club), London: Collins, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Scribner, 2014, →ISBN:
- When it came to railways, [William] Mackenzie had all of the Scotsman's golden touch.1996, F. R. Berchem, “Northward Growth (1875–1914)”, in Opportunity Road: Yonge Street 1860 to 1939, Toronto, Ont.: Natural...
- What if the precogs have somehow lost their golden touch and their predictions are no longer impeccable?2011, Peter Murphy, “Public Relations Guide for New Precrime Officers”, in D. E. Wittkower, editor, Philip K. Dick and Philosophy: Do...
- He had a lot riding on Dylan—not the least that he wanted to prove to the executives at Columbia that he still had the golden touch.2011, June Skinner Sawyers, “I is Someone Else”, in Bob Dylan: New York (MusicPlace Series), Berkeley, Calif.: Roaring Forties Press...
Synonyms of golden touch
Forms of golden touch
| plural | golden touches |
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Origin of golden touch
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.
Questions about golden touch
- What does golden touch mean?
- Golden touch means synonym of Midas touch (“the ability to achieve financial reward (or, more generally, success) easily and consistently”).
- How do you use golden touch in a sentence?
- The golden touch, in a modest kind of way." He looked around his sitting-room, as if to say there were golden touches and golden touches.
- What part of speech is golden touch?
- Golden touch is a noun.
- How do you pronounce golden touch?
- Golden touch is pronounced /ˌɡəʊldən ˈtʌt͡ʃ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of golden touch?
- The plural of golden touch is golden touches.
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