almighty dollar

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(US, pejorative, idiomatic, singulare tantum) The dollar, satirically characterized as a god.

1836, Washington Irving, The Creole Village, in Knickerbocker Magazine (November 1836), later re-published in ''Wolfert's Roost's and Other Papers'' (1855)

Origin: 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. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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