what the Americans call the “Almighty Dollar.”
“Now birth and rank and bleeding,
Hardly saved from utter smash,
Have been ousted, rather roughly,
By the onslaught of King Cash.”
Truth (Christmas Number, 1892, p. 19.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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