make the world go round

make the world go round

To be of critical or integral importance to the ordinary operation of life or the world at large. (Sometimes used hyperbolically.) It's an unavoidable truth that money and commerce make the world go round. I tell you, coffee made the world go round when I was in grad school!
See also: go, make, round, world
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • money makes the world go around
  • such is life
  • Such is life!
  • so is life
  • at the grass roots
  • life after (something)
  • dying is as natural as living
  • grass roots
  • grassroots
  • the grass roots
References in periodicals archive
A mark, a yen, a buck or a pound, a buck or a pound, a buck or a pound, Is all that makes the world go around, that clinking clanking sound, Can make the world go round.
Is it love or money?