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hit the jackpot

verb

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. To be accurate or correct.

  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hit, jackpot.

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