| 单词 | to hit pay dirt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hit (also strike, etc.) pay dirt 2. figurative. Profit; success. Frequently in to hit (also strike, etc.) pay dirt: to achieve profit or success. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > prosper or flourish [verb (intransitive)] > have good fortune light?c1225 urec1440 to fall on (also upon) one's feet1574 to fall on (also upon) one's legs1723 to strike it rich1834 to strike oil1860 to luck out1902 to hit the jackpot1910 to bottom on (also upon) gold1926 to strike lucky1951 to hit (also strike, etc.) pay dirt1953 to land on one's feet1958 1882 Dover Weekly Argus (Canal Dover, Ohio) 13 July 3/6 The poor farmers of the east have struck ‘pay dirt’..with their plows and hoes... All kinds of provisions are necessarily in great demand..in the mining camps, villages, or cities of the far West. 1884 Cent. Mag. Nov. 60/2 He lives..in a style that proves that he has lots of pay dirt somewhere. 1913 Amer. Mag. Mar. 84/1 New York land is ‘pay dirt’—because every year more and more people want it, need it, must have it. 1935 Motion Picture Nov. 46/2 Frances Langford, the cutie whose ‘pay dirt’ reaches $1,000 per week. 1953 Economist 24 Oct. 248 Senator McCarthy may have struck pay-dirt at last. 1977 Rolling Stone 21 Apr. 88/3 Bowie hits celestial pay dirt on one of the pieces. 2003 Independent 26 June (Review section) 5/2 Robin..had been looking for love on the internet for some time. Last November, it seemed that at last she had, as they say, hit pay dirt. < as lemmas |
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