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Examples
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If he doesn't strike pay-dirt he'll have to buy a steamer-passage to get away from the Solomons.
Chapter 19 2010
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Every likely-looking "feeder" was prospected, but the elusive "pay-dirt" danced ever to the north.
In a Far Country 2010
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Every likely-looking "feeder" was prospected, but the elusive "pay-dirt" danced ever to the north.
In a Far Country 2010
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But it does provide a long-term incentive to weather the storms and get to pay-dirt.
Executive Compensation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The width of the pay-dirt steadily decreased, and the man extended in his mind's eye the sides of the "V" to their meeting-place far up the hill.
All Gold Canon 2010
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The width of the pay-dirt steadily decreased, and the man extended in his mind's eye the sides of the "V" to their meeting-place far up the hill.
All Gold Cañon 2010
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No ore where you should be striking pay-dirt by the hopper-load, and me finding creatures larger than anything mentioned in text-tapes from any planet in all the systems we've explored in the last four hundred galactic standard years.
Cattle Town 2010
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I knew I'd hit pay-dirt when I saw his jaw tighten; he shook his head sternly.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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"I feel a lot better now, knowing there was a good reason we couldn't find any pay-dirt at all!"
Cattle Town 2010
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Sometimes they struck pay-dirt, however, including the “Rathergate” controversy over George W. Bush's alleged military service, which figured in the blog's 2004 Time award.
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