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gold, golden
Idioms and Phrases
- all that glitters is not gold
- good as gold
- heart of gold
- silence is golden
- worth one's weight in gold
Example Sentences
Guessing her new masterâs desires, she reaches: âGirls? Gold? Golden girls?â
I saw it first upon an afternoon when no air was stirring, even in the poplars, when the green of Touraine was changing to gold: golden fruit, pears, and apples, where summer's fruit had been; golden leaves flickering down from high branches, or raked into golden heaps; while the faint, sweet smoke of burning twigs hovered in the autumn day.
Whiteâred and whiteâwhite and goldâgolden hairâvolumes of itâevery kind.
The Peruvians called the ore in their language of imagery âthe tears wept by the sun;â and these tears they toiled to gather, and their artificers worked them up with a cunning skill under the direction of the priests; and, as if to complete the wonders of the temple, and to give it adornments that should never lose their lustre, never fade, it was surrounded by an Aladdin-like garden whose plants were goldâgolden of leaf, silver of stem, and with flowers sparkling in combinations of the two metals.
"Dr. Henry Schliemann, in 1876, made rich discoveries there, weapons, ornaments, vessels of gold, silver and clay," skeletons "surrounded by bands of gold, golden shovels engraved with battle-scenes," etc.
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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 HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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