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hit the jackpot
Idioms and Phrases
Be highly successful, especially unexpectedly; win, especially a lot of money. For example, She hit the jackpot at the auction; that platter turned out to be genuine Meissen . This term comes from a form of poker in which a hand can be opened only if one holds at least a pair of jacks (or higher). Often a number of hands must be dealt before anyone can open, and since players must put in money for each round, the jackpot , or total amount held, is apt to be quite large. [Early 1900s]Example Sentences
"It seems like the families of the Muan Airport victims have hit the jackpot. They must be secretly delighted," said one such comment.
But they felt as if they had hit the jackpot.
These entrepreneurs sometimes invest in several groups in the hope that one of them will hit the jackpot when a vessel is captured so they can get their cut of the ransom.
Westwick proposed in January, saying he “hit the jackpot” a little more than a year after making their relationship public.
He soon hit the jackpot after he found a six-carat diamond, which was worth a fortune 50 years ago.
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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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