gold

Related to gold: Gold Stock, Gold mining

gold

informal A person or thing of exceptionally outstanding quality or value. My grandma has been there for me through thick and thin, guiding me through every stage of life. She is absolute gold. This script is pure gold! Did you write it yourself? Tom might be a bit of a doofus, but he's gold. He'd do anything to help his friends.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

gold

n. money. (see also ducats.) Do you have enough gold to pay the bill?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (as) good as gold
  • a gold mine
  • a heart of gold
  • a pot of gold
  • all that glistens is not gold
  • All that glitters is not gold
  • all that glitters/glistens/glisters is not gold
  • as good as gold
  • be as good as gold
  • be sitting on a gold mine
  • be worth its/(one's) weight in gold
  • be worth your weight in gold
  • be worth your/its weight in gold
  • black gold
  • Columbian gold
  • crock of gold
  • fool's gold
  • get a gold star
  • go for (the) gold
  • go gold
  • gold
  • gold digger
  • gold mine
  • gold mine of information
  • gold standard
  • goldbrick
  • goldbricker
  • gold-plate
  • gold-plated
  • good as gold
  • good as gold, as
  • have a heart of gold
  • heart of gold
  • heart of gold, (to have) a
  • like gold dust
  • pot of gold
  • sit on a gold mine
  • sit on a gold mine of (something)
  • sitting on a gold mine
  • speech is silver, silence is gold
  • strike gold
  • the streets are paved with gold
  • there's gold in them thar hills
  • there's gold in them there hills
  • up in (one's) gold ones
  • up in someone’s gold ones
  • worth its weight in gold
  • worth its/(one's) weight in gold
  • worth its/one's weight in gold
  • worth one's weight in gold
  • worth your weight in gold
References in classic literature
He found "pay" that was no more than "wages" on a dozen surface bars, and from the generous spread of flour gold in the muck and gravel of a score of creeks, he was more confident than ever that coarse gold in quantity was waiting to be unearthed.
Then it was that Carmack, his brother-in-law, Skookum Jim, and Cultus Charlie, another Indian, arrived in a canoe at Forty Mile, went straight to the gold commissioner, and recorded three claims and a discovery claim on Bonanza Creek.
Burning Daylight
"First of all," answered the Marionette, "I want to buy a fine new coat for my father, a coat of gold and silver with diamond buttons; after that, I'll buy an A-B-C book for myself."
"Do you want one hundred, a thousand, two thousand gold pieces for your miserable five?"
Adventures Of Pinocchio
But King James, who had probably expected that the Rose Algier would return laden with gold, refused to have anything more to do with the affair.
Grandfathers Chair
But all the Ambassadors of the next countries, which had been there before, and knew the fashions and manners of the Utopians, among whom they perceived no honour given to sumptuous and costly apparel, silks to be contemned, gold also to be infamed and reproachful, were wont to come thither in very homely and simple apparel.
English Literature For Boys And Girls
At the base of the "V," by the water's edge, he had found the gold colors at the grass roots.
Moon Face and Other Stories
And now that all the false hopes had vanished, and the first shock of certainty was past, the idea of a thief began to present itself, and he entertained it eagerly, because a thief might be caught and made to restore the gold. The thought brought some new strength with it, and he started from his loom to the door.
Silas Marner
He gave her a vessel of water and then went back to his place and his thoughts, and with his mind busy over his last adventure, he put his gold into a long and narrow purse, which he could easily carry in his belt.
Arabian Nights
He would have given much of the gold before him for a little water--for he had to replace what had been thrown overboard when the negro was carried up into the air.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
A whole month went by before I obtained any result; but whenever I felt my strength failing as I worked, I heard the chink of gold, I saw gold spread before me, I was dazzled by diamonds.--Ah!
Facino Cane
Damon said," he went on while arranging his papers, "he met me on the train, and he was so taken by the story of the idol of gold that he agreed to accompany me to Central America."
Tom Swift In The Land Of Wonders
Unfortunately, Allah has made me so that I must also take off your head - unless," he added, thoughtfully, "you offer me half of the gold; for He made me weak under temptation."
Fantastic Fables
He loved the red gold of the sunstone, and the moonstone's pearly whiteness, and the broken rainbow of the milky opal.
Picture Of Dorian Gray
Almost immediately upon his return to the village Tarzan commenced making preparations for leading an expedition in search of the ruined city of gold which old Waziri had described to him.
The Return of Tarzan