| 单词 | like gold dust |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslike gold dust c. figurative. Chiefly in similative expressions, as the type of something difficult to find or obtain; esp. in like gold dust. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [noun] > rare or occasional thing strawberry preaching1548 hen's teeth1700 blue moon1821 gold dust1840 a sometime thing1935 1840 Hampsh. Advertiser & Salisbury Guardian 29 Aug. He had been to see Messrs. King about their property, but it seemed like gold dust. 1850 Scioto (Ohio) Gaz. 23 Mar. Ripe Strawberries have made their appearance in the New York market. A cultivator of the fruit says that ‘his strawberries are like gold dust at present.’ 1914 Racine (Wisconsin) Jrnl.-News 14 Oct. 3/2 Tobacco is like gold dust to the soldier. 1984 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 20 Sept. Tickets for the theatre are like gold dust. 1992 V. Glendinning Trollope vi. 125 Unattached young men, especially if they would dance, were gold dust in the country-house world of rural Ireland. 2012 Independent 13 June 26/3 Bookings are gold dust... You won't get near The Fat Duck or Scotts of Mayfair or Locanda Locatelli in weeks. < as lemmas |
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