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pay dirt
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He was back with the same offer in 2007, and again his investigator struck pay dirt.
They were down some forty feet and were drifting in, wheeling the pay-dirt down a series of planks placed on trestles to the dump.
In the morning our fire would be burned out, and enough pay-dirt thawed to keep us picking all day.
As the night was chilly I had brought along an old grey blanket, similar in colour to the mound of the pay-dirt.
So far we hadn't got pay-dirt, but their mining manager wanted us to drift in a little further.
Every hour for us meant so much more of that precious pay-dirt that lay under the frozen surface.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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