thy Idiom

filthy lucre

money, dollars Filthy lucre - that's what people want - cash, moola, lettuce.

filthy rich

very rich, wealthy, rolling in it She was filthy rich after she got married. She was a millionaire.

cringeworthy

likely to promote embarrassment or apprehension

worthy of

deserving 值得；配得上
He is worthy of our trust and expectation．他没有辜负我们的信任和期望。

worthy of the name

Idiom(s): worthy of the name

Theme: GOOD

deserving to be so called; good enough to enjoy a specific name.
• There was not an actor worthy of the name in that play.
• Any art critic worthy of the name would know that painting to be a fake.

extend one's sympathy

Idiom(s): extend one's sympathy (to sb)

Theme: SORROW

to express sympathy to someone. (A very polite and formal way to tell someone that you are sorry about a misfortune.)
• Please permit me to extend my sympathy to you and your children. I'm very sorry to hear of the death of your husband.
• Let's extend our sympathy to Bill Jones, who is in the hospital with a broken leg. We should send him some flowers.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy,

Idiom(s): Early to bed, early to rise(, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.)

Theme: EARLY

A proverb that claims that going to bed early and getting up early is good for you. (Sometimes said to explain why a person is going to bed early. The last part of the saying is sometimes left out.)
• Tom left the party at ten o'clock, saying "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
• I always get up at dawn. After all, early to bed, early to rise.

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It means that sleeping well and not staying up late will help you out physically and financially.

Healthy as a horse

If you're as healthy as a horse, you're very healthy.

extend one's sympathy to|extend|sympathy

v. phr. To offer one's condolences on the occasion of a death or similarly tragic event. All of Tom's colleagues extended their sympathy to him when his wife and daughter were killed in a car accident.

filthy lucre|filthy|lucre

n., informal Money, especially when thought of as bad or shameful. When the rich gambler tried to make Sarah marry him, she said, "Keep your filthy lucre I shall marry the man I love."

Sometimes used in a joking way. "Come and let's get rid of some filthy lucre."

filthy rich|filthy|rich

adj. phr. Extremely rich but without cultural refinement; nouveau riche. "The Murgatroyds are filthy rich," Ted complained. "They are rolling in money but they never learned how to behave properly at a dinner table."

mental telepathy|mental|telepathy

n. phr. The passing of one person's thoughts to another without any discoverable talking or carrying of signals between them. Mrs. Smith knew the moment her husband's ship sank on the other side of the world. It seems like a case of mental telepathy. Most or all men who practice mental telepathy on stage have really trained themselves to detect tiny clues from the audience.

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early to bed, early to rise
early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise
Prudent habits pay off, as in With final exams coming, you'd best remember, early to bed and early to rise. This ancient rhyming proverb, so familiar that it is often abbreviated as in the example, was long ascribed to Benjamin Franklin, who quoted it in this form in Poor Richard's Almanack. However, slightly different versions existed in English in the mid-1400s and in Latin even earlier.