Lucre
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Lucre, from the Lat. lucrum, meaning gain in terms of money or wealth within the nation.
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Often it is used in a negative, as in the phrase “not given to filthy lucre” from the Bible 1 Timothy 3:3.
From this, the term "filthy" became slang for money. [1]
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[edit] In fiction
- Lucre is the currency in the Mana series.
- The novel The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan has a hill called Lucre where the character Demas, a deceiver, beckons to pilgrims to come and join in the supposed silver mining going on in it.
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[edit] See also
- Luker (disambiguation)
- Tim Bobbin, poet who used the phrase in his short verse, When Filthy Lucre Joins a Man and Wife
[edit] Other uses
- Filthy Lucre is a band
- Filthy Lucre Live is a live album from the Sex Pistols
- Filthy Lucre is a song from both Offpist and The Raymond Brake
- Filthy Lucre is the title of a book written by Joseph Heath.
- Lucre Island is a fictional island in the Monkey Island video-game series
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