mine of information

mine of information

Someone or something that contains a lot of knowledge about a particular topic. You should ask Amanda for advice about your cake recipe—she's a mine of information about baking.
See also: information, mine, of
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

mine of information

Fig. someone or something that is full of information. Grandfather is a mine of information about World War II. The new search engine is a positive mine of useful information.
See also: information, mine, of
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

a mine of inforˈmation (about/on somebody/something)

a person, book, etc. that can give you a lot of information on a particular subject: My grandmother was a mine of information on the family’s history. People criticize television, but for children it’s a mine of information.
See also: information, mine, of
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

mine of information, a

A good source of data. The term is sometimes used ironically: Our family privately used to describe a particular history teacher as a gold mine of misinformation (based on our children’s quotations of her dicta). The word mine has been used figuratively to mean an abundant supply since the sixteenth century. The OED quotes a 1905 issue of Athenaeum: “Her book is a mine of valuable information.”
See also: mine, of
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • a mine of information
  • mine of information, a
  • get on with
  • get on with (someone)
  • along those lines
  • along similar lines
  • give (someone or something) the nod
  • give somebody the nod
  • give someone the nod
  • give the nod to
References in periodicals archive
IFEAT (international Federation of Essential Oils and Aroma Trades) has created a veritable mine of information by adding a database of lecture papers to its official website--www.ifeat.org The papers, selected from the annual IFEAT conferences over the past decade, provide a valuable reference tool for the essential oil and aroma chemicals industries.
Click www.ifeat.org--an essential online information source
The Conceptual art-era preference for unadorned documentation, the audience members willing to forgo chairs (try asking a Prada-clad audience to do this today), and the no-to-virtuosity, no-to-spectacle (as Yvonne Rainer put it in her manifesto of 1965) demeanor of the performer constitute a gold mine of information about the context, the mores, and the stakes that evening thirty years ago.
Performance anxiety: RoseLee Goldberg on historicizing "live art"
The footnotes are a mine of information, and in them Rosand replays (and continues) some of the hotter connoisseurial questions of recent decades: his and Peter Dreyer's debate over Titian's drawings, for example, or the challenges to Michelangelo's oeuvre made by Alexander Perrig and others.
David Rosand. Drawing Acts: Studies in Graphic Expression and Representation
U.K.-based Nicholas Hall & Company has released a new study called "Herbal, Complementary & Alternative Medicines: Connecting to New Realities." Published in two volumes and with over 370 charts and tables, the study is a mine of information on ingredients and the science behind them, together with critical economic analysis of existing treatments versus alternatives for conditions ranging from osteoporosis and benign prostatic hyperplasia to Alzheimer's and heart disease.
U.K.-based Nicholas Hall & Company has released a new study called "Herbal, Complementary & Alternative Medicines: Connecting to New Realities."
"The Cost of the Country House" is a mine of information gleaned from estimates, bill books, ledgers, agreements, and the like.
Creating Paradise: The Building of the English Country House, 1660-1880
This book is the most detailed, comprehensive, and accurate account ever published on the business history of an Alberta region.Some forty personal interviews, hundreds of personal papers, government documents, and other sources have enabled the author to create a veritable gold mine of information on the early retailers, bankers, farmers, ranchers, manufacturers, and others in the region.
Eye on the Future: Business People in Calgary and the Bow Valley, 1870-1900
It is a delight to skim through and a mine of information to draw on when needed.
A Reader's Guide to Writers' London.
This mine of information is what should encourage and inspire musicians to seek out this music for performance.
From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music
Later, on 4 September 1952, Van Vechten assessed Hughes's letters to him thus: "warm (showing how colored and white get along on occasion), intimate, full of references to every living thing, and a mine of information about Negro habits and doings, full of enclosures, rich in folklore, and fabulous in friendship."
Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964
ceiling-high stacks of boxes." One of the boxes provides a gold mine of information about adverse drug events.
Dispensing with the Truth: The Victims, the Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle over Fen-Phen. (Book Review)
Pendel, who's a tailor to the rich and powerful, turns out to be a mine of information - all 100 per cent synthetic.
HOT MOVIES: Nasty sew-and-sew; THE TAILOR OF PANAMA
As always, the footnotes in a Finnis book constitute a gold mine of information indicating his deep study and reflection on Aquinas.
Clear but Complicated
This is not a book for beginners but is a mine of information for those more familiar with the field.
Textbook of Osteoporosis
"There's a gold mine of information in the data--the value of the total density of the universe, the density [of ordinary matter], the value of the Hubble constant," notes Turner.
From soup to us: cosmic ripples test inflation
The Internet is a tremendous mine of information, so start digging.
Where Blacks are on the Net: exploring African American cyberspace