gold rush
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- noun
- /ɡoʊld rʌʃ/
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oleada de inversión
- Right now, we are still in the gold rush days of cloud computing.
Sort of like the Gold Rush, but for bird poop.
- Sort of like the Gold Rush, but for bird poop.
- So I'm a massive fan of not trying to be part of this crazy AI gold rush.
- And maybe Warren Buffett sees that concern is so real and says, you know what, let's be the dude selling the gold shovel during the gold rush.
- And at the time Vanderbilt had, he was, he was building these new businesses where the gold rush was going on.
- I think it could be described as a gold rush.
Examples
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DC is like the great American gold rush, stimulus style.
Blog text (22) -
Experts predict that the emergence of renewable energy technologies will spark a new gold rush for investment and innovation.
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It's the new gold rush.
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For a lot of people, this would be a new gold rush.
Fiction book (2002) -
Think of a gold rush economy.
Blog text (2) -
"There could be a gold rush," she admitted.
Fiction book (1998) -
Russia was the first to stake its claim in this great Arctic gold rush in 2001.
Academic text (2008) -
"You could say this has been a gold rush with no gold," Gilani says.
Blog text (2) -
The investor portrayed Williston as modern-day gold rush country.
Blog text (15) -
The short term greed of the gold rush of the last year in NFT land doesn't change the macro, technology and consumer impact.
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 is also used for modern booms. The words gold and rush give a clear image of many people running to grab riches, so people use the phrase for any situation where many suddenly go after 'quick wealth' or success.