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28 oct. 2012 · Oct 28, 2012. #3. I don't agree with Baltic. The difference is simply that golden is an adjective and gold is a noun and an adjective. "Golden" is not just for color; it can mean made of gold, or gold-colored or a wide range of favorable things, such as splendid, advantageous. If I am describing an object I may say it is golden or gold-colored ...
3 mars 2006 · river said: "Time is gold" or "Time is golden" is an Albanian proverb that roughly translates to "Time is money." In English, time is golden and time is money have come to have different nuances. In the latter, one is reminded not to waste time with unproductive activities. In the former, one os reminded not to forget to fully appreciate those ...
19 oct. 2008 · There was apparently an old saying 'every honest miller has a thumb of gold' -- but authorities disagree what this meant. Some possible explanations: 1) Honest millers were as rare as men with gold thumbs. 2) Successful millers had their "thumb on the scales" when weighing flour, and by cheating made themselves rich.
10 nov. 2017 · It's a bit confusing. For example, the definition of "gold-plated" is-"covered with a thin layer of gold" while "gilded" is "covered thinly with gold leaf or gold paint" and it would be pretty clear but when I looked up "gold leaf" it means "gold that has been beaten into a very thin sheet, used in gilding" which means that it's also gold that ...
2 févr. 2012 · British English. Feb 2, 2012. #2. Yes. Other examples would be: "...with her curls of glossy golden hair." "...and bake until golden." Try substituting 'gold' in those sentences and imagine the scenarios in the hairdressers (who wouldn't want the job of sweeping up the hair off the floor; and you'd find a lot more men in kitchens baking scones!)
20 nov. 2014 · Nov 20, 2014. #3. I think "gold" is an adjective qualifying "walls" here. However, I suspect that there are a thousand different definitions of "phrasal verb", covering a variety of phenomena, so I would not think too hard about what is and what is not a phrasal verb - otherwise I might turn mad. Last edited: Nov 20, 2014.
7 nov. 2008 · Gold as an adjective for anything made of the metal is very common (gold coins, gold medals). Gold as an adjective for the color has examples in the OED from 1590 to 1966. Peptid, you probably know this but, to be sure, the usual adjective for this color of hair would be blonde.
6 juil. 2021 · Russian. Jul 6, 2021. #1. Hi! I'm not sure what J.K. Rowling means here: "He didn't think their horror of anything connected with magic would stretch to a large pile of gold." Does it mean that they, the Dursleys, were so horrified that they wouldn't even reach for that gold?
21 juil. 2012 · Igbo. Jul 21, 2012. #1. I know of the idioms "on a silver platter" and "on a plate" which mean to get something or achieve something e.t.c without effort but many people in my country use "on a platter of gold" to mean "on a silver platter"e.g Henry got the job on a platter of gold. Please is there any idiom like "on a platter of gold" or is it ...
13 nov. 2007 · Nov 13, 2007. #4. Dimcl said: You would say "Silence is golden". One would normally say "gold necklace" (not "golden necklace") because the necklace is made of gold (same thing goes for "gold medal"). Silence is not made of gold. Silence is surely not made of gold but it is very "precious". Isn'y better to say "Silence is Gold" since we're ...
