Name: English Tutor Nick P Adjective Phrase (5) Filthy Rich
Uploaded: 2019-04-27T01:48:51.000Z
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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Adjective Phrase 5.  The adjective phrase

today is filthy rich. Okay. Let's look at the note here. If someone is filthy rich,

Adverbs of degree

he or she is extremely rich. The origin of the term seems to go back to the 14th

century. At that time lucre used to mean money and famous authors at that

time such as Chaucer and John Wycliffe used to use terms such as foul lucre

or filthy lucre to refer to somebody who became rich through

dishonorable means. You know,  by behavior that you might not consider to be

completely moral. So dishonorable means.  Dishonorable ways,  methods of getting

rich. Okay. Let's continue. It became popular in the US during the late 1920s,

after the stock market crash which was really not until 1929 and the rich were

exploiting those who had to sell their homes at unreasonably low prices in

order to survive during the economic crash. So these people became very,  very

poor. And of course since everybody's poor. The value of houses fell down and

these rich people went around , and they were getting great buys on buying up all

these houses that were like far below the normal market price at that time.

mm-hmm Okay.  Okay good. Phrase, sold the homes for

basically low prices. Yes. . As time went on,  the phrase softened. So it wasn't as

harsh.  Softened to just mean extremely rich with just a slight,  just a small

implication of dishonourable wealth. Okay.  So let's take a look at some examples

here. Example number one. He used to come from a filthy rich family,  but after he

inherited his share , he gambled all away. So maybe at one point his

family was filthy rich but then he,  he squandered his money. All right.  Let's look at

number two. The Rothschilds are a filthy rich family and there are many who

believe they became that way through ill-gotten gains.

So yeah they were rich banking family and they might have been one of the ones

like buying up those houses before.  I think one of the Rothschilds used to

have that that old quote.  he said you know,  ' The time to buy is when there's

blood in the street or when they're dropping bombs or something like that. So

always when times are really really bad and people are desperate. That's the time

you get the lowest prices. So he might have been one of the ones that they were

talking about. Let's look at number three.  Jack became filthy rich after investing

in crypto currencies when they were,  when they used to be just pennies for a

Bitcoin. Yeah.  if you haven't thrown like a thousand or a few thousand dollars at

Bitcoin at that time. If you were brave enough to do that.  You'd be a

multimillionaire today. So you could you could have become filthy rich. Anyway.  I

hope it's clear.  I hope you got it. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.