get-rich-quick
adj1
Derogatory, Idiomatic, Often Of a scheme, claiming to provide large profits quickly, with no realistic chance of success, in order to lure gullible investment victims.
- Five companies offering get-rich-quick schemes to property investors have been shut down.
- Get-rich-quick email scams are on the increase.
1 more example
- Private companies have, traditionally, dominated Britain's railway history. The first railways were built by private individuals and groups, and by the late 1830s building a railway was considered the ideal 'get rich quick' scheme.2024 July 24, Richard Foster, “Rail reform has never been easy”, in RAIL, number 1014, page 28:
- Derived terms
- get rich quicker