Why "well-to-be" means wealthy?
2006-11-14 12:28:58 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
It's "well-to-do". It comes from the phrase "well to do in the world" which really isn't much of an explanation.
2006-11-14 12:30:15 · answer #1 · answered by John's Secret Identity™ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"well-to-do means wealthy. It's alittle old fashioned to use, though.
I think it means the same as well off, getting on, that sort of thing you know.
Not lacking for anything that is really needed materialistically speaking. And then some extra besides.
Well to do, I think is having the means, capable thereof, to do what you want to do.
2006-11-14 12:34:05 · answer #2 · answered by smoothsoullady 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I heard the phrase--well to do--to mean wealthy. It has been around for awhile and I don't know why.
2006-11-14 12:30:57 · answer #3 · answered by just julie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard the term well-to-be, but I have heard well to do. I think you have made a slight error here. It means that someone has the money to make life as comfortable as he or she wishes.
2006-11-14 12:45:39 · answer #4 · answered by quietwalker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never heard that- I always hear well-to-do
2006-11-14 12:30:10 · answer #5 · answered by Mommyk232 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you meant well-to-do.
2006-11-14 12:31:01 · answer #6 · answered by antiekdilur 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋