the streets are paved with gold

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Meaning: (idiomatic)Used to describe a place where it is easy to becomewealthyor live well.1995, Janet McClure,Prelude to Ascension: Tools for Transformation,→ISBN, unnumbered page:Do you think it will be a place wherethe streets are paved with gold, similar to the Heaven of the Bible?2011, Stephen Pimpare,A People s History of Poverty in America,→ISBN, page193:It is in many ways our oldest and most enduring national myth, one that has taken many forms:the streets are paved with gold.2014, Patrick J. Fornari,Commoner Sense: The Working Person’s Guide to America,→ISBN, page69:In and around the government lobbyist areasthe streets are paved with gold!

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