Idiom
almighty dollar
Meaning
The dollar, satirically characterized as a god.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Some people worship the almighty dollar above all else.”
“Everything in this city seems to revolve around the almighty dollar.”
“You cannot ignore the power of the almighty dollar in modern sports.”
“The film criticised a society that bows down to the almighty dollar instead of helping the poor.”
“The developer decided to cut down the ancient forest because he only cares about the almighty dollar.”
“Many artists feel they must choose between their creative passion and chasing the almighty dollar to pay the rent.”
“The hospital board was accused of putting the almighty dollar ahead of the health and safety of its patients.”
“In his bitter farewell speech, the retiring senator warned that democracy itself was being sacrificed on the altar of the almighty dollar.”
Examples
simple
“Some people worship the almighty dollar above all else.”
“Everything in this city seems to revolve around the almighty dollar.”
“You cannot ignore the power of the almighty dollar in modern sports.”
contextual
“The film criticised a society that bows down to the almighty dollar instead of helping the poor.”
“The developer decided to cut down the ancient forest because he only cares about the almighty dollar.”
“Many artists feel they must choose between their creative passion and chasing the almighty dollar to pay the rent.”
“The hospital board was accused of putting the almighty dollar ahead of the health and safety of its patients.”
complex
“In his bitter farewell speech, the retiring senator warned that democracy itself was being sacrificed on the altar of the almighty dollar.”
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.
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