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pay dirt

noun

Etymology

From pay + dirt.

  1. derived from *dʰreyd-✻
  2. derived from *dritą✻
  3. derived from drit
  4. inherited from drit
  5. compounded as pay dirt — “pay + dirt”

Definitions

  1. Earth which contains profitable quantities of ore.

  2. A profitable area or period

    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.
    • Wittgenstein was closer to the pay dirt in one of his letters to the philosopher G. E. Moore, when he talked about thought with due attention to what fascinated Heisenberg on his deathbed: turbulence.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA