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golden touches

golden touches is the plural of golden touch.

Meaning of golden touch

Noun

golden touch (plural golden touches)

  1. (idiomatic) 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....
    Synonyms:
    Midas touch

Questions about golden touches

What is golden touches the plural of?
Golden touches is the plural of golden touch.

Words near golden touches in the dictionary

  1. golden toad
  2. golden toads
  3. golden tortoise beetle
  4. golden tortoise beetles
  5. golden touch
  6. golden touches
  7. golden triangle
  8. golden triangles
  9. Golden Trio
  10. golden twanger
  11. golden twangers

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