I heard this word in a song, in this sentence "I've got a midas touch".
2007-07-30 06:34:02 · 6 answers · asked by gist_the_essence 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
King Midas is the Legendary King of Phrygia from European mythology Several stories have collected about his name, the most famous one referring to ‘the Midas touch’. It happened that the King either captured or helped a drunken satyr, with the result that Dionysus offered him anything he wished. Midas asked that all he touched might become gold. Soon after, he found that this applied to his food and beseeched the god to take back the gift, which Dionysus eventually did. The legend doubtless alludes to the wealth of Phrygia, and later Lydia: these countries were fabulously rich and issued the first coinage known to the Greeks.
Midas's golden touch also known as the Midas touch is literally the ability to touch something and make it gold, but if I say I have the Midas touch, I mean I can do things very well with my hands...
In slang [most likely from the song].. in means:
A person who touch his partner all over his/her body and stimulate all his/her erogenous zones and try to linger every sites until he/she explode to ecstasy
2007-07-30 06:41:19 · answer #1 · answered by Wokman 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The fable of King Midas is about a King who wished everything he touched would turn to gold, hence the "Midas touch".
2007-07-30 13:36:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Everything King midas touched turned to gold, so its used to refer to being able to turn something into a very good thing.
2007-07-30 13:36:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Its a big greek ancient story. Midas was a king who loved wealth, so the greek Gods told him that he could wish anything he wants and this will be done. So he wished everything he touches to turm into gold and this came real. The sad part is that he touched his daughter, his wife, his food and everything turned to gold, so he fimally died alone and miserable cause he wanted too much.
2007-07-30 13:40:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Le roi Midas transformait tout ce qu'il touchait en or.
Avoir la main de Midas, c'est avoir le pouvoir de transformer tout ce qu'on touche en or, et au sens figuré c'est avoir le sens des affaires.
2007-07-30 13:37:44 · answer #5 · answered by stym 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Tout ce qu'il touche devient l'or.
2007-07-30 14:19:16 · answer #6 · answered by JJ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋