strike gold

Trump’s attorneys are hoping to strike gold again with these arguments after successfully applying them in Smith’s classified documents case.

That makes Fisher one of the favorites to strike gold in this summer’s Games, something no U.S. distance runner has done in four decades.

A lot of things have to go right for an indie album like this to strike gold, never mind go platinum.

In cases where an accused individual's legal defense is relatively weak, however, the defendant may be inclined to consider such a motion as part of an overall strategy, "hoping either to strike gold" with an actual recusal or "to poison the eventual jury pool or influence public opinion against the judge," Tribe added.

Yet the Dodgers kept putting him in the middle of the lineup hoping he’d strike gold.