VOCABULARY WITH 'MOTHER' (MOTHERLODE)
27 / 04 / 2021
VOCABULARY WITH 'MOTHER' (MOTHERLODE): meaning and examples
Hello and happy Tuesday to our Daily Vitamin readers!
Our theme this week is Idioms with the word MOTHER.
Today we are looking at the word: MOTHERLODE
Definition 1: A place that has very large supplies of a mineral or other natural resource.
Example 1: California's hills were the motherlode for gold in the 1800s.
Example 2: They hit the motherlode for natural gas.
Definition 2: Something that supplies a very large amount of something that you want.
Example 3: The library has been the motherlode of resources for my research.
Example 4: My grandparents' diaries and photos were a motherlode of information about life in the early 1900s.
That's all for today's lesson. Thank you for reading!
