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health is wealth	If you don't have your health you have nothing	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
roll in wealth	To be very rich.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
wealth per capita	Meaning the ratio of resource output value against the population	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
gold bug	A "gold bug" refers to someone who is strongly bullish on gold, believing it to be a valuable store of wealth and a hedge against inflation or economic downturns.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
personal capital	Financial resources or other wealth belonging to a particular person, especially when used for investment purposes.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
rags to riches	In a biographical context, from poverty to exceptional wealth.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
sam is not bonded to share his meat with you!	Who is SAM? representative of hardworking, righteous, law abiding and peace loving people. What is bonded? Mutilated and/or loyal & liable. What does meat mean here? Empirically meat had been the symbol of wealth and prosperity. What is the narrator telling ? SAM is not to give up his share & rights of peace and progress to the may be a rent seeking person!	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
you can't take it with you	It is not possible to take one's material wealth to whatever world may await one after death.1900, E. Phillips Oppenheim, A Millionaire of Yesterday, ch. 6:"The clause which	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
silver spoon	Wealth passed down or inherited.	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
clogs to clogs in three generations	(UK) Wealth earned in one generation seldom lasts through the third (grandchild	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
aliquem ex paupere divitem facere	to raise a man from poverty to wealth.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
bankbook	wealth	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
bitch goddess	Success, especially in terms of wealth and fame.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
captain of industry	A prominent business person who owns or is the highest-ranking executive of one or more major firms, especially one who has considerable wealth and influence.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
diamonds are a girl's best friend	A statement that suggests, while love is a luxury, material wealth (particularly jewellery) is more valuable in the long run.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
easy street	A carefree situation or lifestyle, especially as resulting from possession of wealth.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Faustian bargain	An agreement in which a person abandons his or her spiritual values or moral principles in order to obtain wealth or other benefits.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
feather one's nest	To achieve benefits, especially financial ones, by taking advantage of the opportunities with which one is presented; to amass a comfortable amount of personal wealth.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fount of wisdom/knowledge	Boundless source of information; expert level Various other nouns are interchangeable with ‘wisdom’ or ‘knowledge’ to modify status as a ’fount of,‘ or ‘being a wealth of’ something E.g. fount of courage, fount of compassion, fount of indecision, etc.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
get it how one lives	To achieve wealth or success by any means necessary.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
In the Lap of Luxury	To enjoy lavishness of wealth and comfort, getting all which money can buy	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
line one's pockets	To accumulate personal wealth, especially in an illegal or morally objectionable manner.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
make it rain	to throw a substantial amount of paper money so that it falls on a crowd, audience, performer, or group of performers, often as a way to show off one's wealth	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
put on the dog	To dress up; to put on airs; to make a show of wealth and/or importance; to be pretentious.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
robber baron	Especially in the 19th-century and early 20th-century, a business tycoon who had great wealth and influence but whose methods were morally questionable.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sell one's soul	To abandon one's spiritual values or moral principles for wealth or other benefits.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
富不過三代	clogs to clogs in three generations; wealth does not last beyond three generations	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)