pay dirt
Example Sentences
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Last year, it attained a valuation of $2.96 billion and recently finished two years of digitizing maps and other documents from the state archives in neighboring Zambia, where it hit pay dirt.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
Their initial attempts failed to find nematodes in lakebed sediments, prompting Jung to take a hammer to samples of microbialites where she struck biological pay dirt.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2024
It was amusing for a while to watch celebrities squirm in trying to say the right thing when asked about being a nepo baby—a topic interviewers quickly learned led to sound-bite pay dirt.
From Slate • Jan. 30, 2024
He’d strike pay dirt with “Come Monday” and, especially, “Margaritaville,” songs that brought him into the pop mainstream and established the foundation of a career that brought him from the beach into Wall Street boardrooms.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2023
He thought he’d hit pay dirt with Grandma.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
