to get rich quick
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6.2
- phrasal verb
- Informal
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hacerse rico rápidamente
- Many people fall for scams that promise to get rich quick without hard work.
- get-rich-quick scheme
So if when you're trying to get rich quick, the temptation is to use leverage.
- So if when you're trying to get rich quick, the temptation is to use leverage.
- And Spax can be a great way to get rich quick or lose a lot very, very quickly.
- And that leads us, if we're not careful, over the precipice, into the get rich quick mindset, into the.
- And what worries me is somehow somebody's told young people you can get rich quick.
- Maybe there's more money, but like it takes a long time to build a brand or accumulate wealth or we hear of these get rich quick things and they happen, but they're not the norm.
- Bitcoin was the kind of get rich quick scheme for our generation.
- So when it comes to getting rich quick in America, you've got to understand the institutions that exist, and here are the basic ones.
- Like they're looking for these get rich quick schemes.
- Everyone seems to have a get rich quick scheme.
- So when when people say it's a get rich quick scheme or, you know, there's a it's a get rich slow scheme is what it is.
- But if there is one big lesson here, it is that a good way of avoiding big losses is staying away from any sort of get rich quick scheme.
- You know, those get rich quick kind of schemes.
Examples
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Now, if you were thinking about going to the colonies and you really wanted to get rich quick, the West Indies was the place to go.
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People thought they'd have a shot to get rich quick—all IPOs like this go up 100% on the first day, right?
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Not looking to get rich quick.
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The best way to get rich quick is do what all the smart people are doing.
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Everyone wants to get rich quick and easy.
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No matter what you do, players will figure out some way to game your system, break it, and get rich quick.
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I had no belief that I was going to get rich quick.
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Our ads actually say they can get rich quick.
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And Spax can be a great way to get rich quick or lose a lot very, very quickly.
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Everybody thinks that everyone is going to get good-paying jobs and get rich quick.
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Synonyms
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3.2
To earn a lot of money, often in a short time
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4.9
To earn a lot of money very quickly and easily
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4.3
To earn a lot of money quickly with little work
How Fast
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to acquire wealth rapidly' is directly compositional from 'get' (become/obtain) + 'rich' (wealthy) + 'quick' (rapidly), so a B1 learner who knows the words can infer 'become wealthy quickly'. The additional connotation about questionable methods is a pragmatic extension but does not block basic comprehension; this motion/state composition is cross-linguistically common.
Etymology
Get rich quick comes from old ads and scammers who promised a secret trick to get rich quick, like a magic formula or an easy investment that would make someone wealthy overnight. That's why the expression now warns about trying to become rich very fast, often by 'risky' or dishonest 'schemes'.