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Hit Dirt Pay Find Money I Finding Found

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Idiom HIT PAY DIRT
Definition to find something of great value
Examples
  1. They invested their money in oil wells in Texas and they hit pay dirt. Now they’re the richest people I know.
  2. Chuck went off to Alaska looking to hit pay dirt, but I don’t think he’s going to find what he wants. Everything worth finding has already been claimed.
  3. The senator’s enemies started to investigate his past in the hopes of finding something scandalous. They hit pay dirt when they uncovered his driving record and found that he had been arrested for drunk driving. Synonym: strike it rich
Cross-Refs

Compare to: hit the jackpot

Extra Info

The expression originates from the mining and gold-rush days when a person could become rich if he or she found dirt with gold in it.

Category Money

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