mother lode | Idiomator

Meaning: (geology)Alargeorrichveinofgoldor of anotherpreciousmineralfrom which other branches extend.1912,Jack London, “The Little Man”, inSmoke Bellew:Undeterred, reasoning from the coarseness of the gold that it had not traveled far, they had set out in search of themother lode.; (idiomatic,by extension)Anysourceof valuable or useful material.2000April 10, Dick Thompson, “The Feds Step Up the Pace”, inTime‎[1]:It is also letting them probe the genomes of other organisms for DNA that could turn out to be amother lodefor medicine.2014March 4, Landon Thomas Jr., “Emerging, but No Longer a Mother Lode of Profits”, inNew York Times‎[2]:Emerging, but No Longer aMother Lodeof Profits [title]

Examples:

EN: You locate the mother lode. Then you strike the vein.
ES: Ubicas el filón principal y golpeas la vena.
EN: This guy here is a mother lode of wisdom.
ES: Qué hombre tan listo tenemos aquí.
EN: The strike isn't a mother lode, but it's productive.
ES: La mina no es un filón, pero produce.
EN: "Or a son of the mother lode."
ES: "O un hijo de la veta madre".
EN: A map to the mother lode.
ES: Un mapa hacia la veta madre.
EN: We'll be partners in the mother lode!
ES: ¡Seremos socios en la veta madre!
EN: - Do you think it's a mother lode?
ES: - ¿Crees que es una veta madre?
EN: Of course, it is not the mother lode we share among us.
ES: Por supuesto, no es la veta madre que compartimos entre nosotros.
EN: The mother lode.
ES: La veta madre.
EN: At the moment, the leaders of the race are approaching the historic mining towns of the mother lode.
ES: De momento, los líderes de la carrera... se aproximan a los pueblos mineros históricos.
EN: "What are we looking for?" We're looking for nuggets, veins, the mother lode.
ES: Buscamos pepitas, filones, la veta madre.
EN: What's the mother lode?
ES: ¿Qué es una veta madre?
EN: Been fighting each other trying to tunnel to the mother lode - For 2 years now.
ES: Llevan peleando dos años para ver quién llega primero a la Veta Madre.
EN: - The mother lode?
ES: ¿La Veta Madre?
EN: We'll lose more If we don't get to the mother lode first.
ES: Perderemos más si no llegamos a la Veta Madre primero.

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