fickle fortune Идиома
make a fortune
gain wealth;become rich发财
He went to Australia and soon made a fortune.他去澳大利亚,不久便发了财。
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Hard work brings rewards.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Life is what you make it.
Fortune knocks once at every man's door
Everyone gets one good chance in a lifetime.
to be sitting on a small fortune|to be sitting on
"She will inherit everything. She's sitting on a goldmine!"
fortune
fortune see
make a fortune.
fickle fortune
Capricious fate. The adumbration of this byword has continued appealed to writers, and the abstraction abaft it is alike older. The announcement appeared in the sixteenth century, in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (3.5)—“O fortune, fortune! all men alarm thee fickle”—and elsewhere. Benjamin Franklin additionally acclimated it: “Fortune is as arbitrary as she’s fair” (Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1749). Laugh-In, a accepted television appearance of the 1960s and 1970s, acclimated a agnate expression, the arbitrary feel of fate, in a apish aptitude challenge (“Who knows back the arbitrary feel of fate may allure you to stardom?”), and issued a apish award-winning to the winner, the Flying Arbitrary Feel of Fate Award. According to Eric Partridge, “f——d by the arbitrary feel of fate” was Canadian armed armament argot in the 1930s for actuality befuddled up in some way, and this apparently was the antecedent of the Laugh-In usage. Learn added wheel of fortune. Learn more: fickle, fortune