strike it rich

A person who comes from nothing goes on to strike it rich.

If his system worked, we'd be striking it rich any night now.

"Or I hope my kids strike it rich and help me."

Whether we struck it rich or not, my fee from him would take care of that.

To attract and hold the best, you have to offer the chance to strike it rich.

Several times he struck it rich, and always the money seemed to run away".

"They've found a way to strike it rich, and I think it's a major problem.

Striking it rich from a primary residence - the family home - is anything but easy.

For a time he really thought he was going to strike it rich.

They all tell stories of striking it rich in silver mines out west.

He could, at least, if prospectors here were allowed to strike it rich.

Just having a shot at striking it rich, however remote, makes the lottery a good deal, they say.

To them you're a chance to make money, to make a name for themselves, to strike it rich.

Most often the women stayed behind and managed the home while the man tried his luck at striking it rich.

I've observed that those who strike it rich, as the saying goes, need more than a spot of luck.

He fails to strike it rich and sets up as a merchant instead.

There is always the potential of striking it rich, hit the mother load!"

The chances of striking it rich with such schemes, however, are slim.

He is a businessman who strikes it rich in the states and moves his wife to England.

While there he strikes it rich with great gold.

"She's struck it rich again, with a silver mine somewhere."

In the prospect hole, the group literally "struck it rich".

All is going so well, he's even bought his own oil well in hope of striking it rich.

A couple's marriage is seriously strained when they strike it rich in journalism.

But, for the most part, their dreams of striking it rich on hot new issues have so far gone unfulfilled.