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P1. Proverbs and proverbial phrases.

a. all that glitters (also glistens, shines, etc.) is not gold and variants: the attractive outward appearance of something is not a reliable indication of its true nature; things are not always as good, admirable, or valuable as they appear to be.In later use often associated with Shakespeare (see quot. 1600).

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c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 97 Nis hit nower neh gold al þet ter schineð.

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Ellesmere) (1875) l. 962 But euery thyng which þat seineth [c1415 Corpus Oxf. semeþ, c1415 Lansd. schyneþ] as the gold Nis nat gold, as þat I haue herd told.

c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 272 Hyt is not al golde that glareth.

1537 tr. Original & Sprynge All Sectes To Rdr. sig. ✠ii^v For all is not golde that shyneth, nether are they all of Christes couent, that weare brode crownes, wide coules, and syde coates.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vii. 65 All that glisters is not gold, Often have you heard that told.

1784 S. Johnson Let. 2 Oct. (1994) IV. 413 All is not gold that glitters, as we have been often told.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. ix. 66 I wished to put you on your guard. It is an old saying that ‘all is not gold that glitters’.

1912 Internat. Bookbinder Dec. 713/2 Our officers..do not believe that everything should be taken for granted, they..have as their guiding star the old..adage that ‘all that glistens is not gold’.

2014 W. R. Lavell Casino 39 These [casino] promotions portray an easy life of..glamour yet purposely leave out the hard facts hiding behind the neon lights that..All That Glitters Is Not Gold.

b. its (also his, etc.) weight in gold: see weight n.¹ 9.

c. gold may be bought too dear and variants: even something of great value or apparent benefit may prove not to be worth the high price paid for it.

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1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vii. sig. Iiv A man maie bie golde to dere.

1590 R. Greene Mourning Garment 20 I shall buy Gold too deere, in subiecting my selfe to so high a husband.

1630 E. Cobbes Worldlings Looking Glasse 362 We vse to say, we wil not buy gold too deare.

a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) vi. 132 Men will not (as our common Proverb is) buy Gold too dear.

1716 E. Ward St. Paul's Church 26 He that hopes, when driven near, To thrive, by buying Gold too dear, Is like the lazy Fool, that lays One Burthen down for present Ease.

1849 Well-spring 9 Feb. 23/2 ‘A man may buy gold too dear.’ Every one who obtains riches dishonestly, obtains it too dear.

1908 Times 28 Nov. 11 Gold may be bought too dear; and little improvements in the regulation of the drink traffic [may]..carry with them..ruinous harshness to individuals.

2015 Irish Examiner (Nexis) 26 Feb. As the old adage goes, you can buy gold too dear, and..new entrants should question whether there is any return from renting land at high prices.

d. to eat gold: to believe (erroneously) that one can subsist on great wealth alone. Often in negative constructions, as you can't eat gold and variants.In quot. 1599 with reference to the story of King Midas, who wished that everything he touched should turn to gold, and almost died of hunger as a consequence of this wish being granted (see the etymology at Midas n.).

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1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 39 That fable of Midas eating gold had no other shadow or inclusiue pith in it, but he was of a queasie stomacke.

a1626 W. Rowley New Wonder (1632) i. 14 And he that gets Gold, let him eate Gold.

1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body iii. iv. 35 If wearing Pearls and Jewels, or eating Gold, as the old Saying is, can make thee happy, thou shalt be so.

1875 Myrtle 29 May 34/2 He couldn't eat gold, he couldn't drink it. Bright as it was, it couldn't show him the door, the feeblest rushlight could do that.

1918 J. Therese With Old Glory in Berlin viii. 94 He had..a wide circle of business friends who..supplied the ‘open sesame’ to many a secret door behind which was stored something far more precious than gold (you can't eat gold).

2017 Cairns Eye (Austral.) (Nexis) 28 Jan. 11 As the Alaskans will tell you, ‘You can't eat gold.’

e. (as) good as gold: see good adj., n., adv., and int. Phrases 4c.

P2. heart of gold: used to denote a kind, generous, brave, or noble nature, or a person having this.

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1542 Dyalogue Defensyue for Women sig. C.iii^v What hertes of golde fyne and pure whiche women do vtterly contemne and refuse.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V iv. i. 45 The kings abago, and a hart of gold.

1703 Voy. to Antipodes 27 I remember our old Captain..used to say, Come my Hearts of Gold; now for the Honour of England.

1831 W. Scott Jrnl. 10 Jan. (1946) 135 A fine fellow, & what I call a Heart of gold.

1858 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (Tauchnitz ed.) II. vii. i. 208 If, with gentle blood, youth, good looks, and a heart of gold, that fortune does not allow him to aspire to any girl whose hand he covets, I can double it.

1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xi. 123 While she may have had a heart of gold, the thing you noticed about her first was that she had a tooth of gold.

1971 Times 12 Dec. 19/4 Tarts invariably turn out to have a heart of gold.

2016 S. Wales Argus (Nexis) 11 Apr. He has a heart of gold. And he is an example to us all.

P3. gold of pleasure: the Eurasian plant Camelina sativa (family Brassicaceae), having yellowish-white flowers and producing yellow seeds used a source of oil; cf. cameline n.²

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > gold of pleasure

cameline1578

myagrum1578

gold of pleasure1597

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 214 Golde of pleasure..is called properly Myagrum.

1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden ccliv. sig. Bbbb The word Myagrum signifies as much as Muscipulum, sive Muscarium, and is attributed to gold of Pleasure, because the seed being oily, hath such an emplastick, or clammy quality therein, that it arresteth the Flies that settle thereon.

1882 G. Allen Colours of Flowers ii. 43 The most primitive and simple forms have yellow flowers, as in the case of..the gold-of-pleasure (Camelina sativa).

2015 F. G. Jewett in V. M. V. Cruz & D. A. Dierig Industr. Crops viii. 157 Camelina sativa, or ‘gold of pleasure’, belongs to the Brassicaceae family and has been cultivated in Europe as an oilseed since the Bronze Age.

P4. gob of gold: see gob n.¹ 2.

P5. mother of gold: see mother n.² Compounds 2.

P6. oil of gold: see oil n.¹ Compounds 2b.

P7. to mint gold: see mint v.² 4.

P8. pot of gold: see pot n.¹ 2c.

P9. to bottom on (also upon) gold: see bottom v. 8a(c).

P10. Archery to make a gold: to hit the bullseye. to cut the gold: (of an arrow) to lie across the gold of the target; (also) to land in the gold portion of the target. Cf. A. 7.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > practise archery [verb (intransitive)] > hit centre of target

to cleave the pin1590

to make a gold1877

1877 Archer's Reg. 1876–7 iii. 49 £1 for the best end at 80 yards, won by Mr Fryer, who made a gold, a red, and a blue.

1879 M. Thompson & W. H. Thompson How to train in Archery x. 52 An arrow is said to cut the gold when in falling short it apparently drops across the gold.

1901 Archer's Reg. 1900–1901 267 Once or twice at our meetings he made three golds.

1923 Boys' Life Nov. 39/2 Cut the gold, when an arrow in falling short appears to drop across the gold in the target.

1960 T. A. Forbes New Guide Better Archery 71 Bolts must cut the Gold to score.

P11. to strike gold.

a. To mint a gold coin or coins (cf. strike v. 28a). Now chiefly historical.

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1757 Numismatic Chron. 19 224 It is remarkable that the Sassanians not only recommenced to strike gold,..but did so on the old Eastern standard.

1852 J. Y. Ackerman in Whole Wks. King Alfred the Great I. ii. 131 The English numismatists of the last century have discussed..the possibility of the Anglo-Saxons having struck gold in their mints.

1913 F. W. Burgess Chats on Old Coins 298 David II was the first Scottish king who struck gold.

2006 J. Kolbas Mongols in Iran i. iv. 106 The Great Saljuq ruler, after taking al-Rayy, struck gold there..with an arrow and bow at the top of both the obverse and reverse.

b. To succeed in finding gold by mining, digging, etc.

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1851 N.Y. Herald 24 Aug. Several other companies have struck gold farther down on the mountain.

1862 Times 27 Dec. 9/3 On all the established leads, the claimholders..are striking gold more or less payable.

1942 Montana Standard 28 June 7/3 Our prospector struck gold in his search for tungsten.

2002 F. McLynn Wagons West (2003) vii. 252 He saw a shining metal which later enabled him to claim that he was the first man to strike gold in California.

c. figurative. To find (a source of) great profit; to have or be a great success.

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1893 Man of World 18 Jan. 3/2 The Haymarket [theatre] has struck gold with Hypatia.

1919 Lima (Ohio) Sunday News 22 June 6/1 Jack's benefactor..was convinced that he had struck ‘gold’... Offers came from all parts of the country for Dempsey to fight.

1942 Ruthven (Iowa) Free Press 7 Jan. She'd been in vaudeville before she struck gold in Hollywood.

2015 Tel. Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) (Nexis) 8 Oct. a14 Advertisers know they have struck gold when the audience repeats their phrases.

d. Sport. To win a gold medal in a competition, esp. the Olympics (cf. sense A. 9).

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1956 Delphos (Ohio) Daily Herald 19 Aug. 4/4 United States 400-meter hurlers, 100-meter sprinters,..and a hammer-throwing Boston school master struck gold, silver and bronze..in Melbourne's main Olympic stadium.

1972 Daily Mail 21 Aug. 16 Alan Minter..is the top British boy [in Boxing]... He was given the choice of two weights—middle, at which he struck gold, or middle light.

2018 Denver Post (Nexis) 12 Feb. 6 b (caption) Austria's David Gleirscher, right, is congratulated after striking gold in men's luge singles.

P12. Originally Sport. to go for (the) gold: to strive for a gold medal in a competition, esp. the Olympics (cf. A. 9). In extended use: to do one's utmost to attain the highest possible reward or level of achievement.

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1963 Observer 21 July 14 (heading) Going for gold single-handed... The single-handed International Finn dinghy class offers high hopes for British Olympic helmsmen.

1972 News Jrnl. (Mansfield, Ohio) 1 Sept. 1/2 On Sunday Spitz will be going for gold in the 100-meter freestyle.

1990 L. L. Ross Harvest Opportunity i. 34 Every farm woman has a product that she could really expand in... They shouldn't be afraid..they should go for the gold.

1997 Darts Player 98 43/1 Once I climb the steps to the stage again, the old feeling of wanting to win will come back and I'll be going for gold.

2011 T. Ronald Becoming Nancy (2012) iv. 58 She clearly takes this as a sign of arousal on my part and goes for gold.

单词	to strike gold
释义	> as lemmas to strike gold Phrases P1. Proverbs and proverbial phrases. a. all that glitters (also glistens, shines, etc.) is not gold and variants: the attractive outward appearance of something is not a reliable indication of its true nature; things are not always as good, admirable, or valuable as they appear to be.In later use often associated with Shakespeare (see quot. 1600). ΚΠ c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 97 Nis hit nower neh gold al þet ter schineð. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Ellesmere) (1875) l. 962 But euery thyng which þat seineth [c1415 Corpus Oxf. semeþ, c1415 Lansd. schyneþ] as the gold Nis nat gold, as þat I haue herd told. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 272 Hyt is not al golde that glareth. 1537 tr. Original & Sprynge All Sectes To Rdr. sig. ✠ii^v For all is not golde that shyneth, nether are they all of Christes couent, that weare brode crownes, wide coules, and syde coates. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vii. 65 All that glisters is not gold, Often have you heard that told. 1784 S. Johnson Let. 2 Oct. (1994) IV. 413 All is not gold that glitters, as we have been often told. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. ix. 66 I wished to put you on your guard. It is an old saying that ‘all is not gold that glitters’. 1912 Internat. Bookbinder Dec. 713/2 Our officers..do not believe that everything should be taken for granted, they..have as their guiding star the old..adage that ‘all that glistens is not gold’. 2014 W. R. Lavell Casino 39 These [casino] promotions portray an easy life of..glamour yet purposely leave out the hard facts hiding behind the neon lights that..All That Glitters Is Not Gold. b. its (also his, etc.) weight in gold: see weight n.¹ 9. c. gold may be bought too dear and variants: even something of great value or apparent benefit may prove not to be worth the high price paid for it. ΚΠ 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vii. sig. Iiv A man maie bie golde to dere. 1590 R. Greene Mourning Garment 20 I shall buy Gold too deere, in subiecting my selfe to so high a husband. 1630 E. Cobbes Worldlings Looking Glasse 362 We vse to say, we wil not buy gold too deare. a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) vi. 132 Men will not (as our common Proverb is) buy Gold too dear. 1716 E. Ward St. Paul's Church 26 He that hopes, when driven near, To thrive, by buying Gold too dear, Is like the lazy Fool, that lays One Burthen down for present Ease. 1849 Well-spring 9 Feb. 23/2 ‘A man may buy gold too dear.’ Every one who obtains riches dishonestly, obtains it too dear. 1908 Times 28 Nov. 11 Gold may be bought too dear; and little improvements in the regulation of the drink traffic [may]..carry with them..ruinous harshness to individuals. 2015 Irish Examiner (Nexis) 26 Feb. As the old adage goes, you can buy gold too dear, and..new entrants should question whether there is any return from renting land at high prices. d. to eat gold: to believe (erroneously) that one can subsist on great wealth alone. Often in negative constructions, as you can't eat gold and variants.In quot. 1599 with reference to the story of King Midas, who wished that everything he touched should turn to gold, and almost died of hunger as a consequence of this wish being granted (see the etymology at Midas n.). ΚΠ 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 39 That fable of Midas eating gold had no other shadow or inclusiue pith in it, but he was of a queasie stomacke. a1626 W. Rowley New Wonder (1632) i. 14 And he that gets Gold, let him eate Gold. 1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body iii. iv. 35 If wearing Pearls and Jewels, or eating Gold, as the old Saying is, can make thee happy, thou shalt be so. 1875 Myrtle 29 May 34/2 He couldn't eat gold, he couldn't drink it. Bright as it was, it couldn't show him the door, the feeblest rushlight could do that. 1918 J. Therese With Old Glory in Berlin viii. 94 He had..a wide circle of business friends who..supplied the ‘open sesame’ to many a secret door behind which was stored something far more precious than gold (you can't eat gold). 2017 Cairns Eye (Austral.) (Nexis) 28 Jan. 11 As the Alaskans will tell you, ‘You can't eat gold.’ e. (as) good as gold: see good adj., n., adv., and int. Phrases 4c. P2. heart of gold: used to denote a kind, generous, brave, or noble nature, or a person having this. ΚΠ 1542 Dyalogue Defensyue for Women sig. C.iii^v What hertes of golde fyne and pure whiche women do vtterly contemne and refuse. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V iv. i. 45 The kings abago, and a hart of gold. 1703 Voy. to Antipodes 27 I remember our old Captain..used to say, Come my Hearts of Gold; now for the Honour of England. 1831 W. Scott Jrnl. 10 Jan. (1946) 135 A fine fellow, & what I call a Heart of gold. 1858 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (Tauchnitz ed.) II. vii. i. 208 If, with gentle blood, youth, good looks, and a heart of gold, that fortune does not allow him to aspire to any girl whose hand he covets, I can double it. 1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xi. 123 While she may have had a heart of gold, the thing you noticed about her first was that she had a tooth of gold. 1971 Times 12 Dec. 19/4 Tarts invariably turn out to have a heart of gold. 2016 S. Wales Argus (Nexis) 11 Apr. He has a heart of gold. And he is an example to us all. P3. gold of pleasure: the Eurasian plant Camelina sativa (family Brassicaceae), having yellowish-white flowers and producing yellow seeds used a source of oil; cf. cameline n.² ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > gold of pleasure cameline1578 myagrum1578 gold of pleasure1597 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 214 Golde of pleasure..is called properly Myagrum. 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden ccliv. sig. Bbbb The word Myagrum signifies as much as Muscipulum, sive Muscarium, and is attributed to gold of Pleasure, because the seed being oily, hath such an emplastick, or clammy quality therein, that it arresteth the Flies that settle thereon. 1882 G. Allen Colours of Flowers ii. 43 The most primitive and simple forms have yellow flowers, as in the case of..the gold-of-pleasure (Camelina sativa). 2015 F. G. Jewett in V. M. V. Cruz & D. A. Dierig Industr. Crops viii. 157 Camelina sativa, or ‘gold of pleasure’, belongs to the Brassicaceae family and has been cultivated in Europe as an oilseed since the Bronze Age. P4. gob of gold: see gob n.¹ 2. P5. mother of gold: see mother n.² Compounds 2. P6. oil of gold: see oil n.¹ Compounds 2b. P7. to mint gold: see mint v.² 4. P8. pot of gold: see pot n.¹ 2c. P9. to bottom on (also upon) gold: see bottom v. 8a(c). P10. Archery to make a gold: to hit the bullseye. to cut the gold: (of an arrow) to lie across the gold of the target; (also) to land in the gold portion of the target. Cf. A. 7. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > practise archery [verb (intransitive)] > hit centre of target to cleave the pin1590 to make a gold1877 1877 Archer's Reg. 1876–7 iii. 49 £1 for the best end at 80 yards, won by Mr Fryer, who made a gold, a red, and a blue. 1879 M. Thompson & W. H. Thompson How to train in Archery x. 52 An arrow is said to cut the gold when in falling short it apparently drops across the gold. 1901 Archer's Reg. 1900–1901 267 Once or twice at our meetings he made three golds. 1923 Boys' Life Nov. 39/2 Cut the gold, when an arrow in falling short appears to drop across the gold in the target. 1960 T. A. Forbes New Guide Better Archery 71 Bolts must cut the Gold to score. P11. to strike gold. a. To mint a gold coin or coins (cf. strike v. 28a). Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1757 Numismatic Chron. 19 224 It is remarkable that the Sassanians not only recommenced to strike gold,..but did so on the old Eastern standard. 1852 J. Y. Ackerman in Whole Wks. King Alfred the Great I. ii. 131 The English numismatists of the last century have discussed..the possibility of the Anglo-Saxons having struck gold in their mints. 1913 F. W. Burgess Chats on Old Coins 298 David II was the first Scottish king who struck gold. 2006 J. Kolbas Mongols in Iran i. iv. 106 The Great Saljuq ruler, after taking al-Rayy, struck gold there..with an arrow and bow at the top of both the obverse and reverse. b. To succeed in finding gold by mining, digging, etc. ΚΠ 1851 N.Y. Herald 24 Aug. Several other companies have struck gold farther down on the mountain. 1862 Times 27 Dec. 9/3 On all the established leads, the claimholders..are striking gold more or less payable. 1942 Montana Standard 28 June 7/3 Our prospector struck gold in his search for tungsten. 2002 F. McLynn Wagons West (2003) vii. 252 He saw a shining metal which later enabled him to claim that he was the first man to strike gold in California. c. figurative. To find (a source of) great profit; to have or be a great success. ΚΠ 1893 Man of World 18 Jan. 3/2 The Haymarket [theatre] has struck gold with Hypatia. 1919 Lima (Ohio) Sunday News 22 June 6/1 Jack's benefactor..was convinced that he had struck ‘gold’... Offers came from all parts of the country for Dempsey to fight. 1942 Ruthven (Iowa) Free Press 7 Jan. She'd been in vaudeville before she struck gold in Hollywood. 2015 Tel. Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) (Nexis) 8 Oct. a14 Advertisers know they have struck gold when the audience repeats their phrases. d. Sport. To win a gold medal in a competition, esp. the Olympics (cf. sense A. 9). ΚΠ 1956 Delphos (Ohio) Daily Herald 19 Aug. 4/4 United States 400-meter hurlers, 100-meter sprinters,..and a hammer-throwing Boston school master struck gold, silver and bronze..in Melbourne's main Olympic stadium. 1972 Daily Mail 21 Aug. 16 Alan Minter..is the top British boy [in Boxing]... He was given the choice of two weights—middle, at which he struck gold, or middle light. 2018 Denver Post (Nexis) 12 Feb. 6 b (caption) Austria's David Gleirscher, right, is congratulated after striking gold in men's luge singles. P12. Originally Sport. to go for (the) gold: to strive for a gold medal in a competition, esp. the Olympics (cf. A. 9). In extended use: to do one's utmost to attain the highest possible reward or level of achievement. ΚΠ 1963 Observer 21 July 14 (heading) Going for gold single-handed... The single-handed International Finn dinghy class offers high hopes for British Olympic helmsmen. 1972 News Jrnl. (Mansfield, Ohio) 1 Sept. 1/2 On Sunday Spitz will be going for gold in the 100-meter freestyle. 1990 L. L. Ross Harvest Opportunity i. 34 Every farm woman has a product that she could really expand in... They shouldn't be afraid..they should go for the gold. 1997 Darts Player 98 43/1 Once I climb the steps to the stage again, the old feeling of wanting to win will come back and I'll be going for gold. 2011 T. Ronald Becoming Nancy (2012) iv. 58 She clearly takes this as a sign of arousal on my part and goes for gold. extracted from goldn.¹adj. < as lemmas
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