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mother lode

abundant source or supply

mother lode

by Real GURU on Nov 24, 2020 19:40:49

Originally meaning a main vein in mining, the spelling “motherload” is a mistake which is probably influenced by people thinking it means “the mother of all heavy loads.”

A “lode” was originally a stream of water, but by analogy it became a vein of metal ore. A vein of mineral ore deposited between clearly demarcated layers of rock ahdictionary dot com Miners of precious metals live to find a 'lode' of gold, which they refer to as a “mother lode,” often spelled as two words, sometimes as one (neither is in the dictionary though).

Definition paraphrased from Washington State University website

Example:
Son of a bitch, we struck the mother lode! in the 1976 classic film Network

mother lode

by Dominiqueb59 on Jun 14, 2009 01:01:55

A very rich seam in a gold mine, a dream or a phantasm !

Example:
"his head full of dreams about the mother lode buried somewhere inside" (James Lee Burke, Swan Peak, 2008)

Mother lode

by island girls on Mar 24, 2017 00:23:33

Clusters of peanuts, dark chocolate and seeds baked in a stream of golden honey and coconut oil; Vein of gold. Origin of something valuable or in great abundance.

Example:
"Oh my gosh! I just hit the mother lode!"

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