gold in them thar hills

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An opportunity for something to be profitable or beneficial. idiomatic,uncountable
    — There really is gold in them thar hills. During the 2000 election cycle, zip-code areas on average yielded slightly more than $35,000 in political contributions, while residents of Beverly Hills, 90210, ponied up slightly more than $6.2 million.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see gold, in, them thar, hills. uncountable

词源

Originally used in the phrase there’s gold in them thar hills, possibly a misquote of the phrase there’s millions in it (viz. the North Georgia mountains) uttered in Mark Twain's novel The American Claimant (1892) by Colonel Mulberry Sellers, a character thought to be based on Dahlonega Mint assayer M. F. Stephenson.
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