crock of gold

noun

A valuable but elusive treasure.

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Meanings

nouncrock of gold (plural crocks of gold)

plural crocks of gold

  1. idiomaticinformalA valuable but elusive treasure.

    "It was like turning up a crock of gold," he remembers. "It was absolutely wonderful."

    2011, Jon Kelly, “The piece of paper that fooled Hitler”, in bbc.com, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2015, people
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