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Noun: A man whose fortune has been made
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- 1840 — Edgar Allan Poe, The Business Man
- I consider myself, therefore, a made man, and am bargaining for a country seat on the Hudson.
- 1841 — Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, chapter 21
- Oh you lucky dog! He's richer than any Jew alive; you're a made man.
- 1855-1891 [1854] — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Book XX, "A Boston Ballad"
- Stick your hands in your pockets, Jonathan—you are a made man from this day
- 1872 — Samuel Butler, Erewhon, chapter 1
- I had no money, but if I could only find workable country, I might stock it with borrowed capital, and consider myself a made man.
