mullet millionaire

mullet millionaire
1) a nickname for two amateur fish farmers of Roman times who grew red mullet and carp in ponds, species which fetched enormous prices among epicureans
2) a person who becomes rich through a lottery win or some other type of windfall without hard work or inheritance

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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