the streets are paved with gold

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Phrase

the streets are paved with gold

1. (idiomatic) Used to describe a place where it is easy to become wealthy or live well.
   • 1995, Janet McClure, Prelude to Ascension: Tools for Transformation, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Do you think it will be a place where the streets are paved with gold, similar to the Heaven of the Bible?

   • 2011, Stephen Pimpare, A People s History of Poverty in America, →ISBN, page 193:

     It is in many ways our oldest and most enduring national myth, one that has taken many forms: the streets are paved with gold.

   • 2014, Patrick J. Fornari, Commoner Sense: The Working Person’s Guide to America, →ISBN, page 69:

     In and around the government lobbyist areas the streets are paved with gold!

Translations

place where it is easy to live well

• Hungarian: kolbászból van fonva a kerítés (literally “the fence is woven of sausage”) (usually in the negative)
• Spanish: los perros se atan con longaniza

References

• “the streets are paved with gold”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.