as rich as Croesus

Seems as rich as Croesus, but always eager for more.

What a shock to find that people who've become as rich as Croesus fencing other...

We may be as rich as Croesus.

The implication is that you can be as rich as Croesus, because the crime here is not having, but wanting.

"This girl's father," said William, "is as rich as Croesus.

And if pain is wealth, then all of us, apart from Liverpool fans, are as rich as Croesus.

My God, if that was what this was, the man was probably as rich as Croesus!

If I had them I should think myself as rich as Croesus."

He was fabulously wealthy, spawning the simile: "as rich as Croesus."

As rich as Croesus but lonely.

As you know, I'm as rich as Croesus.

Ms. Jones, 50, is one of growing number of participants who think polo need not be played by only those as rich as Croesus.

One minute I'm as rich as Croesus, and the next minute I'm dead broke.

He does not waste money, although he is as rich as Croesus, and nor does he waste words.

"She's as rich as Croesus."

The top 0.1 per cent of British earners are not only as rich as Croesus, the Lydian king synonymous with great wealth.

I know he's nothing much to look at, but he's the unofficial King of Rome-and he's as rich as Croesus!

"If the Bimenion's as rich as Croesus," Sisko mumbled.

He's said to be as rich as Croesus and as reclusive as a stylite, and that's all anyone knows of him.

"What Caecilius Metellus isn't as rich as Croesus?

The Mughal emperors, who came to power in the 16th century, were as rich as Croesus and had extravagant, not to say over-the-top, tastes.

"Wayne Rooney may become as rich as Croesus," thundered Eamonn in a lengthy personal blog diatribe against the player.

He may be a baron in his own country and a noted consultant in this one and as rich as Croesus, so I've heard, but he's no snob, and so very kind."

Her father died when she was a kid, as did her uncle, which meant that her grandfather who was as rich as Croesus had no one else to leave his ill-gotten gains to.