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have the Midas touch

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have the Midas touch
Fig. to have the ability to be successful, especially the ability to make money easily. (From the name of a legendary king whose touch turned everything to gold.) Bob is a merchant banker and really has the Midas touch. The poverty-stricken boy turned out to have the Midas touch and was a millionaire by the time he was twenty-five.
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If you have the Midas touch or sheer genius, you have never lost at the race tracks, local or international.
These people walk out the door, open their arms, and deals just fall out of the sky and into their arms because they have the Midas touch.
Romer seems to have the Midas touch with school funds - no raise is too much, no project too costly, no request too out-oounds.
 
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