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Master of the Universe
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The "highly successful business person" sense is derived from Mattel's Masters of the Universe toy line and media franchise, which was launched in 1982. It was first used as such in the 1987 novel The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (see quotations).
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Master of the Universe (複数形 Masters of the Universe)
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (religion) God
- (idiomatic) A powerful person.
- 1845, Dumas, Alexander, The Count of Monte Cristo:
- I have told you, where the air is pure, where every sound soothes, where one is sure to be humbled, however proud may be his nature. I love that humiliation, I, who am master of the universe, as was Augustus
- 1953, Castro, Fidel, History Will Absolve Me:
- They felt themselves lords and masters of the universe, with power over life and death.
- (idiomatic, finance, business) A highly successful business person.
- 1987, Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 12:
- The Masters of the Universe were a set of lurid, rapacious plastic dolls that his otherwise perfect daughter liked to play with. […] On Wall Street he and a few others—how many?—three hundred, four hundred, five hundred?—had become precisely that. . . Masters of the Universe. There was . . . no limit whatsoever!
- 2008, Boris Johnson, Conservative Party Conference:
- No matter how much you may dislike the Masters of the Universe, my friends, there are plenty of other parts of the universe that would welcome them.
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