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mighty dollar

mighty dollar is the alternative form of almighty dollar.

Meaning of almighty dollar

Noun

the almighty dollar

  1. (US, derogatory, idiomatic, singular, singular-only) The dollar, satirically characterized as a god.
    • The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking houses and other pious shrines, there is no knowing how long the inhabitants may...1836, Washington Irving, The Creole Village, in Knickerbocker Magazine (November 1836), later re-published in Wolfert's Roost's and Other Papers (1855)

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What is mighty dollar the alternative form of?
Mighty dollar is the alternative form of almighty dollar.

Words near mighty dollar in the dictionary

  1. mightnae
  2. mights
  3. mightsome
  4. mightst
  5. mighty
  6. mighty dollar
  7. Mighty Mississippi
  8. Mighty Mouse
  9. Mighty Mouses
  10. mighty oaks from little acorns grow
  11. mightyship

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