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gold Theme: MONEY n. money.Do you have enough gold to pay the bill?There's no gold in my pockets.
gold noun 1 money US, 1940. 2 used generically for jewellery, especially goods that are traded illicitly UK, 2000. 3 a type of bet in an illegal lottery US, 1957. 4 potent marijuana. Often combined with a place name for the formation of place plus colour US, 1968. 5 in drag racing and hot rodding, a trophy or prize US, 1968
idiomgold► (the pot of gold at) the end of the rainbow► be like gold dustgood as goldused in order to emphasize that someone behaves very well ◆ used especially about children:He sat there waiting, as good as gold, until it was his turn.Clara's as good as gold, and so intelligent.be like gold dustused in order to say that something is very valuable and very difficult to find:This is only the second time in 35 years the team's made it to the finals, so tickets are like gold dust."High quality clinical researchers are like gold dust," said a spokesman for the research council.strike goldto find or do something that makes you successful or rich:Chef Jerry Toth struck gold when he won first prize in a contest for best chef in Britain.I knew I'd struck gold - the things I'd seen would make a great television programme.there's gold in them there/thar ___a humorous expression used in order to say that someone is making a lot of money from a situation ◆ often used in newspapers, on television news etc:Not only is the sale of the drug legal, it's also very lucrative - there's gold in them there pills.There's gold in them thar sewers, as a cleaning company found when they discovered a hoard of old coins blocking the town's sewers.NoteThis idiom comes from the time in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when people were looking for gold in the western US. When gold was found people were supposed to have said, "there's gold in them thar hills." Now people use other words instead of hills to make the phrase fit any situation.
gold n. money. (see also ducats.) Do you have enough gold to pay the bill? - (as) good as gold
- a gold mine
- a heart of gold
- a pot of gold
- all that glistens is not gold
- All that glitters is not gold
- all that glitters/glistens/glisters is not gold
- as good as gold
- be as good as gold
- be sitting on a gold mine
- be worth its/(one's) weight in gold
- be worth your weight in gold
- be worth your/its weight in gold
- black gold
- Columbian gold
- crock of gold
- fool's gold
- go for (the) gold
- go gold
- gold
- gold digger
- gold mine
- gold mine of information
- gold standard
- goldbrick
- goldbricker
- gold-plate
- gold-plated
- good as gold
- good as gold, as
- have a heart of gold
- heart of gold
- heart of gold, (to have) a
- like gold dust
- pot of gold
- sit on a gold mine
- sit on a gold mine of (something)
- sitting on a gold mine
- speech is silver, silence is gold
- strike gold
- the streets are paved with gold
- there's gold in them thar hills
- there's gold in them there hills
- up in someone’s gold ones
- worth its weight in gold
- worth its/(one's) weight in gold
- worth its/one's weight in gold
- worth one's weight in gold
- worth your weight in gold
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