hitting the jackpot

Verb

hit the jackpot (third-person singular simple present hits the jackpot, present participle hitting the jackpot, simple past and past participle hit the jackpot)

1. (idiomatic) To receive a more favorable outcome than imagined, especially by good luck.
   • Before 1914, coal was a true cash-cow, and on paper, the GWR looked to have hit the jackpot by being handed all the railways in the South Wales coal fields.2021 August 25, Richard Foster, “The rise and fall of railway's Big Four...”, in RAIL, number 938, page 55
2. (idiomatic) To be accurate or correct.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hit, jackpot.