hit the jackpot

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Verb

hit the jackpot (third-person singular simple present hits the jackpot, present participle hitting the jackpot, simple past and past participle hit the jackpot)

1. (idiomatic) To receive a more favorable outcome than imagined, especially by good luck.
   • 2021 August 25, Richard Foster, “The rise and fall of railway's Big Four...”, in RAIL, number 938, page 55:

     Before 1914, coal was a true cash-cow, and on paper, the GWR looked to have hit the jackpot by being handed all the railways in the South Wales coal fields.

2. (idiomatic) To be correct.

Translations

to receive a favorable outcome, by luck

• Arabic: ضَرَبَ الفَوْز بِالْجَائِزَة الكُبِرَى (ḍaraba al-fawz bi-l-jāʔiza l-kubrā)
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  Mandarin: 中獎／中奖 (zh) (zhòngjiǎng)

• Finnish: voittaa jättipotti
• French: gagner le gros lot (fr), toucher le jackpot (fr)
• German: das Große Los ziehen
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 大当たりをひく (ōatari-o hiku)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: strzelać w dziesiątkę impf, strzelić w dziesiątkę pf, trafiać w dziesiątkę impf, trafić w dziesiątkę pf
• Portuguese: tirar a sorte grande
• Russian: сорва́ть куш impf (sorvátʹ kuš), срыва́ть куш pf (sryvátʹ kuš)
• Spanish: sacarse la lotería, sacarse el gordo