treasure

Related to treasure: treasury, dictionary, Buried treasure

buried treasure

1. Literally, treasure (such as gold, jewels, or other valuable items) that has been buried under sand or lays hidden in the ocean. Every kid dreams of finding buried treasure at the beach.
2. Anything that has lain dormant or undiscovered for a long period of time that, upon discovery, is found to be of great value. The writer, who was unknown in his lifetime, became hugely popular after the buried treasure of his unpublished manuscript was discovered among his belongings.
See also: bury, treasure

learning is a treasure that follows its owner everywhere

proverb Information that one learns will continue to be of help or benefit throughout one's life. To me, college is a worthy investment because learning is a treasure that follows its owner everywhere.
See also: everywhere, follow, learning, owner, that, treasure

learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere

proverb Information that one learns will continue to be of help or benefit throughout one's life. To me, college is a worthy investment because learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
See also: everywhere, follow, learning, owner, that, treasure, will

one man's trash is another man's treasure

proverb What one person may consider worthless could be highly prized or valued by someone else. A: "I really don't understand the appeal of Jackson Pollock paintings—they just look like paint splatters to me!" B: "Eh, one man's trash is another man's treasure."
See also: another, one, trash, treasure
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

Prov. Something that one person considers worthless may be considered valuable by someone else. Q: Why would anyone want to hang a picture like that on the wall? A: One man's trash is another man's treasure. A: Bob's uncle is always going through people's garbage, looking for old stuff. B: One man's trash is another man's treasure.
See also: another, one, trash, treasure
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • buried treasure
  • dig for
  • dig for (something)
  • dead 'n' buried
  • dead and buried
  • dead and buried/gone
  • dead and gone
  • bury
  • be dead and buried
  • bury away
References in classic literature
Suddenly I remembered the little box of ointment that the dervish had hidden, and which most likely contained a treasure more precious than all the rest.
While we were eating, the dervish happened to mention that in a spot only a little way off from where we were sitting, there was hidden a treasure so great that if my eighty camels were loaded till they could carry no more, the hiding place would seem as full as if it had never been touched.
Arabian Nights
Von Horn's rash adventure had been suggested by the hope that he might, by bribing some of the natives with Barunda's uncle, make way with the treasure before Muda Saffir arrived to claim it, or, failing that, learn its exact whereabouts that he might return for it with an adequate force later.
In the dead of night Ninaka and his party had crawled away under the very noses of the avengers, taking the chest with them, and by chance von Horn and the two Dyaks cut back into the main trail along the river almost at the very point that Ninaka halted to bury the treasure.
The Monster Men
"How do you think he found out where the treasure was?
Sign of the Four
Six times he had returned to the treasure chamber, and six times Werper, the Belgian, had cowered in the black shadows at the far end of the long vault.
Before he extinguished the single candle he had brought with him for the purpose, and the flickering light of which had cast the first alleviating rays into the impenetrable darkness of the buried chamber, that it had known for the countless ages since it had lain forgotten of man, Tarzan's mind reverted to that first occasion upon which he had entered the treasure vault, coming upon it by chance as he fled from the pits beneath the temple, where he had been hidden by La, the High Priestess of the Sun Worshipers.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
I built her plank by plank, and copper-fastened her, selected her masts and every timber of her, and personally signed on her full ship's complement fore-and-aft, and outfitted her amongst the Jews, and sailed with her to the South Seas and the treasure buried a fathom under the sand.
But I bought drinks for others, most carefully selected--bought drinks with an air of prosperity that was as a credential to my story; and in my cups (my apparent cups, steward), spun an old man's yarn of the Wide Awake, the longboat, the bearings unnamable, and the treasure under the sand.--A fathom under the sand; that was literary; it was psychological; it smacked of the salt sea, and daring rovers, and the loot of the Spanish Main.
Michael Brother of Jerry
"Not yet!" answered Peter, hastily shutting the window; for, ever since he had been in search of the treasure, he hated to have people stare at him.
"And this, then, is old Peter Goldthwaite's treasure!" said John Brown.
From Twice Told Tales
We pressed in after him, forgetful for the moment of the bag of diamonds, and found ourselves in King Solomon's treasure chamber.
King Solomons Mines
I am the Warden of the Treasure of the King's City!"
Second Jungle Book
All now that remained was to ascertain the precise spot where the treasure lay buried, for otherwise he might dig at random in the neighborhood of the crosses, without coming upon the spoils, and he had already had enough of such profitless labor.
Adventure of the Black Fisherman
His brothers, who had quite believed he was dead, yielded him up his treasures at once, and flew into the woods in terror.
Yellow Fairy Book