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cel puţin asta mi-a treuct prima dată prin minte...

Well-behaved and obedient.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/40500.html

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Note added at 11 minute (2007-11-04 20:59:32 GMT)
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Aşa e, n-am fost destul de atentă!

Meaning

Well-behaved and obedient.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/40500.html


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Note added at 22 mins (2007-11-04 21:10:24 GMT)
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in context dl. Scoorge este obsedat de averea proprie deci ce e bun , e aur pt el
ma reintorc la linkul de mai sus si citez din plin:
As good as gold

Meaning

Well-behaved and obedient.

Origin

'As X as Y' similes usually compare someone or something with some property of an item that is well-known to exhibit that property. For example:

Her dress was as white as snow.
Alike as two peas in a pod.

In this case things are a little different. Gold isn't well-known to be either well-behaved or obedient. Here 'good' means genuine - not counterfeit.

When banknotes (known as bills in the USA and some other countries) were first introduced they weren't considered to be money in the sense we now think of them. They were promissory notes or IOUs. Gold or silver was real money as it had intrinsic value. Notes were just promises to pay in coin. UK banknotes, like those of many other countries, still include messages like this, signed by the Chief Cashier of the Bank of England: 'I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of ten pounds'.

So, 'as good as gold' ought really to be 'as genuine as gold', but the more usual meaning of 'good' has taken precedence over the years and left us with the usual meaning of the phrase.

As these similes go, it isn't especially old and is first recorded in Thomas Hood's Lost Heir, 1845:

"Sitting as good as gold in the gutter."
expresia "baiat de aur" in limba romana desemneaza nu un baiat care a fost cuminte in biserica ci pe unul care iti aduce multi bani
exemple de utilizare a expresiei in lb romana, spre comparatie :
http://www.eva.ro/divertisment/articol387.html
A aparut in cinematografie aproape de nicaieri si a devenit peste noapte "baiatul de aur" al Hollywoodului. Are un zambet usor ironic si un chip de pustan, ...
http://www.evenimentul.ro/articol/calancea-un-baiat-de.html
25-04-2005 Calancea, un baiat de aur Valeriu Calancea a cistigat medalia de aur la stilul aruncat la Campionatele Europene de haltere gazduite de Sofia..

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Note added at 47 mins (2007-11-04 21:35:32 GMT)
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iar "o comoara de baiat" nu se refera la "pretiozitate" si bunatatea inimii ? eu zic ca da
expresia pe care incerc sa o combat "baiat" de aur" in limba romana are intelesul de "pretios" fara "bun" daca e "bun" e "de zahar" de exemplu
mai sunt si alte exemple care ilustreaza utilizarea expresiei in limba romana asa cum e ea vorbita dar ma tem ca va plictisesc !

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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-11-04 23:02:23 GMT)
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MRS. CRATCHIT: Si cum s-a purtat in biserica?
HUSBAND: A fost o comoara. Mint, mai bun decat atat!
SCROOGE: CE?! Exista ceva mai pretios decat comorile?!

Cred ca traducerea de sus se inscrie in context