golden touch

== English == === Etymology === From the Greek legend of King Midas, related in chapter XI of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 C.E.), whom Dionysus (the god of, among other things, wine and winemaking) gave the power to turn things to gold by touching them. Compare Midas touch. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɡəʊldən ˈtʌt͡ʃ/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɡoʊldən ˈtʌt͡ʃ/ Hyphenation: gold‧en touch === Noun === golden touch (plural golden touches) (idiomatic) Synonym of Midas touch (“the ability to achieve financial reward (or, more generally, success) easily and consistently”). ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === Midas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “golden touch, n.” in “golden, adj. and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2018.