Idiom
buried treasure
Meaning
Something valuable that is concealed for a long time and then rediscovered.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The children dug in the sand looking for buried treasure.”
“The old map suggested that the pirates had hidden their buried treasure somewhere on the remote island.”
“After decades of searching the archives, the historian finally uncovered the location of the long-lost buried treasure, which had remained hidden since the colonial era.”
Examples
simple
“The children dug in the sand looking for buried treasure.”
contextual
“The old map suggested that the pirates had hidden their buried treasure somewhere on the remote island.”
complex
“After decades of searching the archives, the historian finally uncovered the location of the long-lost buried treasure, which had remained hidden since the colonial era.”
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