Golden key is a ‘bribe’

Financial Times

Promoters of the now failed Golden Key Credit Card Co would have never realized this: The word golden key is defined as ‘a bribe’ in the dictionary.

According to the 1989 second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary under ‘Phrases and proverbs’, golden or silver key is described as, ‘Money, employed as a bribe to obtain the opening of a door or to gain a purpose.’

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