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Definition

The ability to achieve financial reward (or, more generally, success) from one's actions easily and consistently.

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Origins

From the Greek legend of King Midas, related in chapter XI of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 C.E.), whom Dionysus (the god of, among other things, wine and winemaking) gave the power to turn things to gold by touching them.

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How People Actually Use It

The ability to make anything into a profitable/economically successful product.

""Yo, Drake got the midas touch!""

Source: Urban Dictionary