rouler sur l'or
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁu.le syʁ l‿ɔʁ/
Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)): (file)
Verb
- (figuratively, informal) to be rolling in money, to be rolling in it, to be loaded, to be minted (to be extremely well-off financially)
- Synonyms: avoir le cul dans le beurre, péter dans la soie
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:
- C'est, à ce qu'on assure, un fameux lapin! il roule sur l'or! il mène avec lui trois maîtresses et son cuisinier!
- From what I hear, he's a regular dog; he's rolling in money; he's taking three mistresses and a cook along with him.
- 1994, Yasmina Reza, ‘Art’:
- Marc: […] Un garçon aisé mais qui ne roule pas sur l’or. Aisé sans plus, aisé bon. Qui achète un tableau blanc vingt briques.
- Marc: […] A boy who is well-off but not rolling in it. Well-off, but no more than that, simply well-off. The type to buy a blank canvas for 200 grand.