strike gold—
1. find gold:
- Andrew Prichard struck gold along the North Fork of the Coeur d’Alene River in 1881.
2. (Sport) win a gold medal in a competition:
- India’s women’s hockey team struck gold for the first time in the Commonwealth tournament.
3. become rich or successful, especially suddenly or unexpectedly:
- He struck gold when he took up the challenge of building a palace for king Khalid.
strike it rich—
1. discover oil or a large vein of minerals:
- Heflin plays a loner who has finally struck it rich in the Nevada desert. …to get his gold out he must trust an old enemy.
2. = strike gold 3:
- Lila’s father struck it rich with some weird investments which people thought would fail in two months.