the streets are paved with gold

the streets are paved with gold

It is easy to become successful or prosperous in this place. My great-great-grandparents emigrated to America in 1888, believing as so many did that the streets were paved with gold.
See also: gold, pave, street
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

the streets are ˌpaved with ˈgold

(saying) used to say that it seems easy to make money in a place: More and more people are moving to the big cities, where they believe the streets are paved with gold.In the traditional story of Dick Whittington, Dick goes to London because he is told that it is so rich that even the streets are paved with gold, but later finds out that this is not true.
See also: gold, pave, street
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • all over the map
  • map
  • a great many
  • great many
  • have to go some
  • have to go some to (do something)
  • (as) tough as leather
  • gone to the great (something) in the sky
  • have a good name (somewhere or in something)
  • (as) tough as old boots
References in periodicals archive
We have cable cars, skislopes, a safari park, a rollercoaster in the high street, a Nelsons Column made entirely of cheese, a herd of unicorns freely roaming the streets, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the streets are paved with gold.
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