gold rush
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3.0
- noun
- /ɡoʊld rʌʃ/
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fiebre del oro
- It was the second largest gold rush in American history.
- gold rush in California
You know, they use dogs for hunting back in the Prairie and gold rush day.
- You know, they use dogs for hunting back in the Prairie and gold rush day.
Examples
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Bodie boasted 65 saloons at one time, and it had a reputation as one of the most wicked and lawless gold rush towns in the West.
Academic text (2004) -
This goes back to, I believe, right before the gold rush in the state of Washington.
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I was there for the gold rush.
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That building's been around since the gold rush.
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In California, it was right before the gold rush.
Academic text (1998) -
Lucky Diggins is a typical gold rush mining town.
Fiction book (2001) -
The decline of the gold rush, which started in 1991-1992, prompted the colonists to return to their lands and others to leave the mining areas.
Academic text (2001) -
During the great California gold rush of 1849, thousands of people traveled west to seek their fortune.
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In the first year of the gold rush, about 60,000 fortune seekers arrived in San Francisco by ship.
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Next year marks the 175th anniversary of the California gold rush, which transformed the state and its population.
How Widespread
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense of a sudden surge or mass movement aimed at obtaining gold is directly derivable from combining 'gold' (the sought resource) with 'rush' (a sudden movement or surge). This compositional pattern (a 'rush' for something) is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun gold rush comes from real events in the 1800s when people who heard about gold rushed to the place with pans and tents to try 'to get rich', and whole towns grew overnight, so the phrase names that sudden movement of people to a place where gold was found.