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filthy rich 

1. Fig. very wealthy. I wouldn't mind being filthy rich. There are too many filthy rich people now.

2. Fig. people who are very wealthy. The filthy rich can afford that kind of thing, but I can't. I sort of feel sorry for the filthy rich.

See also: filthy

It is better to be born lucky than rich.

Prov. If you are born rich, you may lose your money, but if you are born lucky, you will always get what you need or want just by chance. Maybe your family doesn't have a lot of money, but you are lucky, you know. And it's better to be born lucky than rich.

See also: better, born, lucky

one law for the rich and another for the poor

Prov. Rich people are sometimes able to escape without punishment when they commit crimes, while poor people are usually punished. It doesn't seem fair—rich people can avoid paying their taxes and not get in trouble, but poor people are always punished if they don't pay. We shouldn't have one law for the rich and another for the poor.

See also: and, another, law, one, poor

rich in something

having valuable resources, characteristics, traditions, or history. The entire region is rich in historical churches. Our soil is rich in important nutrients.

rich man's joke is always funny

Prov. Everyone wants to curry favor with rich people and so will always laugh at their jokes. (From a poem by Thomas Edward Brown.) We all thought that Mr. Lisle was a narrow-minded, unpleasant old man, but we were careful to act otherwise, because he was wealthy. A rich man's joke is always funny.

See also: always, funny, joke

rich with something

having a lot of something; abundant in something. The beautiful book was rich with color illustrations. The old town was rich with elegant Victorian houses.

stinking rich

Fig. very rich. I'd like to be stinking rich for the rest of my life. Tiffany is stinking rich, and she acts like it.

See also: stinking

strike it rich

to acquire wealth suddenly. If I could strike it rich, I wouldn't have to work anymore. Sally ordered a dozen oysters and found a huge pearl in one of them. She struck it rich!

See also: strike

too rich for someone's blood 

1. too expensive for one's budget. This hotel is too rich for my blood. Europe is getting too rich for our blood.

2. too high in fat content for one's diet. This dessert is too rich for my blood. Most ice cream is too rich for my blood.

See also: blood

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a rich seam  (formal)

a subject which provides a lot of opportunities for people to discuss, write about or make jokes about (often + of ) Both wars have provided a rich seam of drama for playwrights and novelists alike. His second novel mines the same rich seam of mother-son relations.

See also: seam

be (all) part of life's rich pageant/tapestry  (literary)

if you say that a bad or difficult experience is all part of life's rich tapestry, you mean that you must accept it because it is a part of life that cannot be avoided

Usage notes: A tapestry is a piece of cloth with a picture in it that usually represents a story.

Having kids certainly causes problems, but that's all part of life's rich tapestry.

See also: part

be as [crazy/rich etc.] as they come

to be very rich, crazy etc. Jenny's as crazy as they come.

See also: come

filthy/stinking rich  (informal)

extremely rich Most of us are stinking rich compared to the average citizen in the Third World. Palm Beach has the highest concentration of filthy rich folk in the world.

See also: filthy

strike it rich

to suddenly become rich He struck it rich in the oil business.

See also: strike

That's (a bit) rich!

something that you say when someone criticizes you to show that you do not think they are being fair because they are as bad as you I'm greedy? That's a bit rich, coming from you!

See strike it rich

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strike it rich

to become suddenly and unexpectedly rich or successful Many immigrants dream of striking it rich in America.

Etymology: based on literal meaning of strike it rich ( to find gold in the ground)

See also: strike