gold fever
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of gold fever
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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The pockmarked earth on Johannesburg's eastern fringe, until last week a humble cattle kraal ringed with barbed wire, now stands as the unlikely centre of South Africa's latest gold fever.
From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026
California has been a beacon, a destination, a paradise and promised land ever since its headlong expansion in a rush of gold fever.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2024
“The guys who catch Bigfoot gold fever, they become lost to it,” Pyle says.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2021
I should go, she said, if I wanted to see a place that hadn’t been ruined by gold fever.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 4, 2019
I warned him of the risk he was running the last time he was here, but when a man has the gold fever on him the fear of death will not stop him.
From The Second String by Gould, Nat
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