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optilang  #538329  Tue, 08 Jul 08 03:00 PM

RayH

Mister Micawber
'Sitting on a gold mine' loses its effectiveness as a figure of speech

I have to disagree MM. "gold mine" is a well understood idiom and doesn't engender any confusion in the context of N2G's original post.


I agree with Ray.

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Although, I can see MM's point.
  
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