The Land of Opportunity Idiom

a golden opportunity

a good chance to succeed, a good investment The Royal Hotel is for sale. What a golden opportunity!

a window of opportunity

an opportunity, a chance, a golden opportunity Sometimes a problem is actually a window of opportunity.

golden opportunity

(See a golden opportunity)

seize the opportunity

act now to gain most, take advantage of He seized the opportunity to invest in gold. He didn't wait.

throw away a chance or opportunity

fail to make use of a chance or opportunity He threw away a chance to get a good education when he began to work when he was very young.

window of opportunity

(See a window of opportunity)

leap at the opportunity

Idiom(s): jump at the chance AND jump at the opportunity; leap at the opportunity

Theme: OPPORTUNITY

to take advantage of a chance to do something.
• John jumped at the chance to go to England.
• I don't know why I didn't jump at the opportunity myself.
• I should have leaped at the chance.

jump at the opportunity

Opportunity seldom knocks twice.

Don't miss opportunities that come along.

Opportunity knocks but once

This idiom means that you only get one chance to achieve what you really want to do.

The Acreage of Opportunity

1. The United States of America, from the angle that the country provides the befalling for success to anyone from any background. Sometimes spelled in lower case. In the aboriginal 1940s, my grandparents, beat animality in Europe, took aggregate they endemic and sailed on a baiter to the Acreage of Opportunity. I am assertive that this is still the acreage of opportunity, that any man or woman with a dream and the admiration to assignment adamantine can accomplish anything.2. The official accompaniment appellation of Arkansas from 1947 to 1995 (replaced by "The Natural State"). My family's been active in The Acreage of Befalling for about three generations, but we originally barrage from Pennsylvania.Learn more: land, of, opportunity

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One-off One-trick pony Oops a daisy Open all hours Open book Open old sores Open old wounds Opening a can of worms Opportunity knocks but once Other side of the coin Out in the sticks Out of my league the July effect the junk. the jury is (still) out the jury is out the jury is/are out the keys to the kingdom the killer kind the killing season the king is dead, long live the king! the King's English the King's/Queen's English the kiss of death the kiss of life the kiss-off the kit and caboodle the knacker's yard the knives are out the L the laborer is worthy of his hire the lady doth protest too much the lady doth protest too much, methinks the lady of the house the lady or the tiger the land of milk and honey the Land of Nod The Land of Opportunity the land of the living the lap of luxury the last chance saloon the last gasp the last gasp of (something) the last I heard the last lap the last laugh the last minute the last of the big spenders the last of the lot the last of the Mohicans the last person the last roundup the last straw the last thing (one) needs the last thing (one) wants the last word the last word in (something) the last word in something the latch string is always out the late unpleasantness the latest the latest thing the laugh is on (one)