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Reverse Midas Touch 

Talent for turning anything you touch to shit
Michael McG has the reverse Midas Touch! Any assignment that comes his way ends up as a pile of garbage.
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anti-Midas touch 

as opposed to the Midas touch where everything touched turns to gold... the anti midas touches everything that turns to shit.

coined by B.A. Seale after living with the human farm animal known as Boomer, who could break, soil, or ruin anything and everything he touched.
Mark - Hey Brian, I heard Boomer ate all the taco meat, went out and got drunk, and then wrecked your truck over a telephone connector box and into the porch of some guys house?!

Brian - It's all true, he definetely has the anti-midas touch.
anti-Midas touch by Harry Day December 23, 2009

shit midas

Someone who ruins everything they touch. From the Midas Touch, (see King Midas) which turned everything to gold. The antonym to the Midas Touch. A Shit Midas turns everything to shit.
Nerds: They ruined long hair, animation, and now S&M. Is there anything those Shit Midas's don’t destroy?
shit midas by Ian Danger February 6, 2007

False Midas Effect 

Maybe the idea was cool but after a while it became less about the individuals and more about a sub-clique within itself. That's where the fraying begins, and ends with a false Midas effect where everything touched seems golden but it is never tested to prove its legitimacy, just assumed from a self proclaimed credibility on the characteristics of the element without any more inspection than a glance of an eye, therefore failing to realize the lack in malleability and density of the object: the two most defining characteristics. A misunderstanding of the word "experienced" leads to an underdeveloped, misguided conclusion to the "careful observer's" obliviousness to the actual characteristics of plastic. Even the simplest of observers could make out the words, "Made in China", on the back, but a lack in perspective showed the masked issue at literal face value.
Maybe the idea was cool but after a while it became less about the individuals and more about a sub-clique within itself. That's where the fraying begins, and ends with a false Midas effect where everything touched seems golden but it is never tested to prove its legitimacy, just assumed from a self proclaimed credibility on the characteristics of the element without any more inspection than a glance of an eye, therefore failing to realize the lack in malleability and density of the object: the two most defining characteristics. A misunderstanding of the word "experienced" leads to an underdeveloped, misguided conclusion to the "careful observer's" obliviousness to the actual characteristics of plastic. Even the simplest of observers could make out the words, "Made in China", on the back, but a lack in perspective showed the masked issue at literal face value.

midas touch 

The ability to make anything into a profitable/economically successful product.

midas touch of shit 

Someone who has bad luck with whatever they do. The opposite of the normal "Midas Touch " where everything turns to gold.
"Joe has the Midas Touch of Shit. He joined a really hot startup and it closed its doors in 6 months."
midas touch of shit by VioletSays December 22, 2016