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gold-mine
Also gold mine.
A mine from which gold is obtained. Also fig. a source of wealth; esp. a source of abundant income or profit.
1483Cath. Angl. 161/2 A Goldemyne. 1530Palsgr. 226/1 Goldemyne, miniere a or. 1627May Lucan iii. E j b, The land, that from gold-mines letts Hermus goe, And rich Pactolus. 1732T. Lediard Sethos II. vii. 19 Mines of iron..were much scarcer in these climates than gold-mines. 1833Tennyson Dream Fair Women 274 From the deep Gold-mines of thought to lift the hidden ore That glimpses. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Ability Wks. (Bohn) II. 42 There is no gold mine of any importance, but there is more gold in England than in all other countries. 1882‘Thormanby’ Famous Racing Men 81 Mendicant..was destined to prove a ‘gold mine’, for ten years afterwards she brought her owner {pstlg}80,000 through her famous son. 1888J. A. Froude Eng. in W. Indies v. 56 The island was a gold mine to the Attorney-General. 1894Vermont Agric. Rep. XIV. 101 We have a gold mine in our Morgan stock if we only continue to breed and develop them. 1943E. O'Neill Moon for Misbegotten (1952) 65 This farm has suddenly become a gold mine. 1967Listener 22 June 829/2 These two volumes will certainly be a gold mine for future unofficial biographers. 1971Sunday Times 28 Nov. 40/8 Even as he was hailing the ‘gold-mine’ he had struck in starting the Mail he was venting anxiety lest advertising should threaten his position as ‘sole possessor’. |