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Definition of Midas touch
1. Noun. An ability to make and manage large amounts of money.
Definition of Midas touch
1. Proper noun. (idiomatic) The ability to gain success or financial reward from one's actions. ¹
2. Proper noun. (mythology literally) the ability to turn everything one touches into gold. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Midas Touch
Literary usage of Midas touch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In Mythland by Mary Helen Beckwith (1896)
"... MIDAS' TOUCH. i. King Midas was very rich. He had many bags full of gold.
He kept them in a chest in the cellar. ..."
2. Lady Goodchild's fairy ring by Sarah Goodchild (1860)
"... haze diffused itself through the whole chamber, over all the objects transformed
by Midas' touch, and especially over the. image of little Marygold. ..."
3. Poems of Human Progress, and Other Pieces: Including One Hundred and Fifteen by James Harcourt West (1914)
"He has had the Midas-touch, Getting gold where others trash ; Getting everything
but play — Even getting thin and gray. And he really is n't bad — Father ..."
4. The Art of Story-telling: With Nearly Half a Hundred Stories by Julia Darrow Cowles (1914)
"... either boys or girls, may be selected to typify the apple tree and the rose
bush—moving their leaves in the breeze till stiffened by Midas' touch. ..."
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