love gold [wealth] as one's life -- covetous; be greedy for money; be actuated by love of riches; be a money-grubber; love money as much as life itself; love money as one loves one's life; love wealth as much as life; regard wealth as one's life; very stingy; miserly; niggardly
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守财奴爱财如命, 宁可饿肚皮, 没衣穿。 misers put their back and their belly into their pockets
守财奴爱财如命宁可饿肚皮没衣穿 misers put their back and their belly into their pockets
视财如命 worship money like his life; as tight as a drum; miserly
那些视财如命的贪婪的人 those who worshimammon ie greedy people who value money highly
爱财 covetous; avaricious rapacious; be greedy for money
视之如命 look upon... as a dispensation of one's destiny
一钱如命 prize one copper as highly as one's life; be grudging of money; extreme and unnecessary economy; flay [skin] a flint; stinginess; take on cash as one's life
一一如命 act according to sb.'s wish; everything has been done as ordered.; everything is as you wish.; it shall be as you wish
爱财与好学,实难相共容。 the love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.〖hotline
爱才若渴 one's love for scholars [talents] is equal to one's thirst for water.; be very fond of talented people; have a passion for talent; thirst for talents