有錢能使鬼推磨

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See also: 有钱能使鬼推磨

Chinese

to have; there is; there are
to have; there is; there are; to exist; to be
 
 coin; money
ability; can; may
ability; can; may; capable; energy; able
 
to make; to cause; to enable
to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; messenger
 
 ghost; sly; crafty to turn a millstone
trad. (有錢能使鬼推磨) 有 錢 能 使 鬼 推磨
simp. (有钱能使鬼推磨) 有 钱 能 使 鬼 推磨
Literally: “if you have money, you can make the devil push the millstone for you”.

Pronunciation

Proverb

有錢能使鬼推磨

  1. money makes the world go around; money talks

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 有錢能使鬼推磨 (“money makes the world go around; money talks”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 有錢能使鬼推磨
Northeastern Mandarin Taiwan 有錢能使鬼推磨
Harbin 有錢能使鬼推磨
Cantonese Hong Kong 有錢使得鬼推磨
Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian) 有錢就變鬼
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 有錢就作怪
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 有錢就變鬼
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 有錢斯變鬼
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 有錢就變鬼
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 有錢即變鬼
Southern Min Xiamen 有錢會使鬼挨磨, 有錢使鬼會挨磨, 有錢會使鬼
Quanzhou 有錢會使鬼挨磨
Zhangzhou 有錢會使鬼挨磨
Singapore (Hokkien) 有錢使鬼會挨磨
Wu Shanghai 有錢能使鬼推磨
Xiang Hengshan 有錢能使鬼推磨
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