- English translation
With enough money, even the sultan’s daughter can become your bride.
- Literal wording
With your money, the sultan’s daughter is your bride.
- Meaning and lesson
The proverb portrays money as able to fulfill even an exceptionally ambitious wish. Its image of marrying the ruler’s daughter is deliberate exaggeration, heightening the claim that wealth can make a desired outcome possible.
Rather than limiting the point to marriage, it expresses the broad idea that a person with money can obtain what they want. The ruler’s daughter serves as an intentionally extreme measure of the power attributed to wealth.
- When it is used
Use it to remark that money can enable someone to obtain a desired result, particularly when that result seems exceptionally difficult or far beyond ordinary reach. The marriage image is an exaggeration, not a literal claim about marriage or social rank.
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