strike oil

Between 1931 and 1942 he struck oil 38 times.

When you strike oil, you should be able to share.

She knew the exact date that he himself had struck oil: July 10, 1868.

If they do strike oil, there will be another test well in about a year's time.

You might strike oil with someone I wouldn't have thought of asking about it.

He tells a story about a man who started a rumor that they had struck oil in hell.

Don't he know how that enlisted man struck oil with a shovel back in the States?

She struck oil, as you might put it, when she came to the last one, which was for the year 1962.

But in the mid-1990's American drillers struck oil, and everything changed.

At last they struck oil, as I believe they call it.