pay dirt

pay dirt noun: earth which contains profitable quantities of ore.

Noun

pay dirt (uncountable)

Earth which contains profitable quantities of ore.
(figuratively) A profitable area or period; success.
- to hit pay dirt
- Isuzu Inc. hit pay dirt in the late '80s with its series of “Joe Isuzu” spots, featuring an oily, Satanic-looking salesman who told whoppers about Isuzu's genuine llama-skin upholstery and ability to run on tapwater.1997 [1990], David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN

கனிமவளத் தாது

Wittgenstein was closer to the pay dirt in one of his letters to the philosopher G.2007, Clive James, Cultural Amnesia, Picador, page 805:
The DESI team had not expected to hit pay dirt so soon, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, an astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley lab and a spokeswoman for the project, said in an interview.2024 April 4, Dennis Overbye, quoting Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, “A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong”, in...

alternative form	paydirt
alternative form	pay-dirt

From pay + dirt.

What does pay dirt mean?: Pay dirt means earth which contains profitable quantities of ore.
What is pay dirt in Tamil?: Pay dirt in Tamil is கனிமவளத் தாது. See Pay dirt meaning in Tamil.
How do you use pay dirt in a sentence?: Wittgenstein was closer to the pay dirt in one of his letters to the philosopher G.
What part of speech is pay dirt?: Pay dirt is a noun.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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