gold dust

American  

noun

1. gold in fine particles.

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gold dust British  

noun

1. gold in the form of small particles or powder, as found in placer-mining

2. a valuable or rare thing

   tickets for this match are gold dust

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Etymology

Origin of gold dust

First recorded in 1695–1705

Example Sentences

The thieves cut the coin in smaller pieces to sell it off, leaving their clothes, cars and homes sprinkled with gold dust of extraordinary purity.

From The Wall Street Journal

Information about what consumers are looking for in the resale market is gold dust for luxury brands trying to figure out what shoppers want to buy now.

From The Wall Street Journal

Owen says this is typical of many people he treats: "When people get to these crossroads, when they wake up and realise what they are doing, that's a gold dust moment for me."

From BBC

Professor Mahesh Anand is the only scientist in the UK to have been loaned this extremely rare material, which he describes as "more precious than gold dust".

From BBC

He said the video the pair allegedly filmed of "the moment the world famous tree was cut down" was "gold dust" and would have "gone viral".

From BBC