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Yea this sounded scary to me at first but now that I think about it does not seem all that bad.

If you were dirt rich it is probably a great time to be in the skyscraper buying market

Dirt poor. Filthy rich. I wonder where dirt rich fits on the scale. :-)

Dirt rich is untouched money. Collected for the sake of it. Filthy is what you get once you've touched it enough.

Are you making that up? Genuinely curious, as I'm agreed w/ parent you replied to on the "dirt poor / filthy rich" idioms.

Call it a (rare) creative whim!