Idiom
the streets are paved with gold
Meaning
Used to describe a place where it is easy to become wealthy or live well.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Some people think the streets are paved with gold in that city.”
“Many immigrants moved there believing the streets are paved with gold, only to find that life was much harder than they expected.”
“The young man left his rural village for the capital, lured by the naive fantasy that the streets are paved with gold and fortune awaited him at every corner.”
Examples
simple
“Some people think the streets are paved with gold in that city.”
contextual
“Many immigrants moved there believing the streets are paved with gold, only to find that life was much harder than they expected.”
complex
“The young man left his rural village for the capital, lured by the naive fantasy that the streets are paved with gold and fortune awaited him at every corner.”
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