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idiomthere'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.
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