gold dust

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Noun

gold dust (uncountable)

  1. Gold in the form of very small pieces, or flour gold.
  2. (figuratively) Anything of great value.
    • 1996, Jim Ainsworth, Passport's Guide to Britain's Best Restaurants:
      The wine list harbours some great bottles, mature clarets and Burgundies as well as a clutch of fine Germans (gold-dust these days in restaurants) []
  3. basket of gold (Aurinia saxatilis).

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