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hit it big
Idioms and Phrases
Score a major success, especially a profit, as in Some investors hit it big in the stock market . The adverb big here means “with great success.” [ Slang ; late 1800s]Example Sentences
Meme coin investors include everyone from bitcoin millionaires to people grasping at the chance to hit it big, industry insiders say.
Around 1908, other miners hit it big in northwestern San Bernardino County — in tungsten.
Memecoin investors include bitcoin millionaires and people grasping at the chance to hit it big.
“Being from a working-class family from Bell, I always thought, ‘One day, we are going to hit it big and maybe move to Downey.’”
Just ask Oscar winner Russell Crowe, whose band, 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, has yet to hit it big.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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