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hit the jackpot

[hit the jackpot] {v. phr.}, {slang} To be very lucky or successful. * /Mr. Brown invented a new gadget which hit the jackpot./ * /Mrs. Smith hit the jackpot when […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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