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pay dirt
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1. Earth, ore, or gravel that is profitable to mine.2. Informal. A useful or profitable discovery or venture.
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paydirt — (n.) also pay dirt, profit, success, 1873, from PAY (Cf. pay) (n.) + DIRT (Cf. dirt); a word from mining, where it was used in a literal sense from 1856 … Etymology dictionary
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