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struck gold

struck gold is the simple past and past participle of strike gold.

Meaning of strike gold

Verb

strike gold (third-person singular simple present strikes gold, present participle striking gold, simple past struck gold, past participle struck gold or (rare or archaic) stricken gold)

  1. (informal) To be lucky, to win or be successful.
    • Danny Manning and Edwin Moses quickly come to mind for fans who want American athletes to strike gold this summer.1988, Douglas C. Lyons, “What to expect in Seoul”, in Ebony
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see strike, gold (to find gold).
    • “And how did he make his money?”
      “In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds.”1892 [April], A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. X.—The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume III...

Questions about struck gold

What is struck gold the simple past and past participle of?
Struck gold is the simple past and past participle of strike gold.

Words near struck gold in the dictionary

  1. struck back
  2. struck camp
  3. struck down
  4. struck dumb
  5. struck fear
  6. struck gold
  7. struck in
  8. struck it lucky
  9. struck it rich
  10. struck juries
  11. struck jury

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