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单词 financial wizard
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financial wizard
b. transferred and figurative: esp. a man who ‘does wonders’ in his profession: in recent use often trivially applied to an expert. Also frequently as financial wizard, a person skilled in making money, or in organizing financial affairs. the Wizard of the North, Sir Walter Scott.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > skilful person > exceptionally skilled person
wizard1620
virtuoso1682
jumbo1823
ace1840
crackerjack1895
mivvy1906
whizz1914
whizzo1977
society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > Sir Walter Scott
the Wizard of the North1869
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > [noun] > money-dealer > capitalist or financier > other capitalists or financiers
angel1885
financial wizard1952
venture capitalist1971
vulture capitalist1978
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote xxxi. 201 I haue heard my Master say, who is the very Wizard of Histories,..when he came [etc.].
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna vi. xxiii. 139 The choicest winds of Heaven, which are inchanted To music, by the wand of Solitude, That wizard wild.
1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 15 June in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) v. 317 Gerard Duow, and other old Dutch wizards who painted..such earthern jugs that they will surely hold water.
1869 R. Walton Random Recoll. Midland Circuit 134 Fortunately the ‘Wizard of the North’ came upon the spot [sc. Kenilworth], and ‘Henceforth’ (as a modern historian has it) ‘the ruined place was to be sanctified [etc.]’.
1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 218 Some reason for suspecting that the great ‘Wizard’ has lost some of his magic power.
1893 Ladies' Home Jrnl. May 27/2 Sir Walter Scott was called ‘The Wizard of the North’.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 31 Aug. 7/2 The wizard of yacht-building.
1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. xix. 471 The eunuch, Hermeias, who began his career as a money-changer, was a kind of financial wizard and became very wealthy and powerful.
1967 G. F. Fiennes I tried to run Railway v. 58 I had energy..to be the financial wizard on the parochial church council.
1975 Times 24 May 4/7 Judge Kennet..noted that Mr Tzour had been noted as a financial wizard.
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