Sentences with phrase «as hitting the jackpot»

Sure, the slot machine makes it look as though there is something there, but the goal for triggering that is way up at the top of the table, and your success in getting rings that way is just as random as hitting the jackpot on a regular slot machine - totally up to chance with no skill involved.

Not exact matches

Co-founders Devin Haman and Jeff Bozz (last we saw them, they were firing a pair of hard - partying friends named Holly and Molly) will be back for a new season on E! later this year... AmieStreet.com, a music - downloading start - up that raises the price of a song as it gains popularity, hit the jackpot when users found recordings on the site by Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the woman linked with former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer.

You're about 1 million times as likely to win the Powerball jackpot as you are to get hit by any piece of Tiangong - 1.

Nintendo Co., Ltd (ADR)(OTC: NTDOY) may have hit the jackpot with its» Super Mario Run,» as it launched its first full - blown mobile game Thursday.

The aints did hit a jackpot last year during the draft but even that was kind of lucky — the Niners jumped ahead of them and selected LB Foster (whom they were supposedly fixed on) who wasn't nearly as impactful as the guy the aints drafted instead, and now may actually be suspended.

Chelsea seem to have hit the jackpot with Diego Costa, but Jose Mourinho may see Doumbia as the long term replacement for the ageing Didier Drogba.

If he's better than that, as you suggest, they've really hit the jackpot.

The Jazz hit the jackpot with rookie guard Donovan Mitchell, and his emergence has changed their timetable as a franchise.

As Arsenal, for example, demonstrate that sometimes you hit the jackpot with a Cesc Fabregas, but mostly it does not quite work out, as was the case with the likes of Denilson or Nicklas BendtneAs Arsenal, for example, demonstrate that sometimes you hit the jackpot with a Cesc Fabregas, but mostly it does not quite work out, as was the case with the likes of Denilson or Nicklas Bendtneas was the case with the likes of Denilson or Nicklas Bendtner.

When I started working as a newborn care specialist and sleep consultant 11 years ago, I knew I hit the jackpot!

In that case, you have hit the toilet - training jackpot as we will guide you to a diaper - free toddler in no time!

The Manhattan District Attorney's office has hit the jackpot in asset forfeitures — with holdings of roughly $ 734 million as of June 30, according to the Independent Budget Office.

While some retirees could hit the jackpot, the chances are higher that they would hit rock - bottom if the market struggles as it has since the Great Recession started in 2007.

«Taxpayers in Suffolk County are hitting the jackpot of mandate relief as a result of this proposal.»

«As one of my colleagues said, I hit the jackpot.»

And in March 2016, when Harvard licensed compounds that Shair's lab had developed to Merck for an initial payment of $ 20 million, with the potential of additional payments as the compounds progress and royalties if a resulting drug eventually comes to market, the inventors stood to hit the financial jackpot.

Dr Barton, Senior Lecturer in Bioarchaeology at the University of Leicester, described the find as «hitting the jackpot»: «Our discovery is totally unexpected and very exciting.

-- Cassini's electronic «nose» hit the jackpot, finding many surprises as it sniffed the gases in the previously unexplored space between the planet and the rings.

It's like hitting two jackpots in one; you get the style you want and it's beautiful as well.

As a flower child at heart, finding the perfect bohemian dress at a steal was like hitting the jackpot, and I absolutely adore this classic, loose fitting dress for summer traveling and exploring the city.

I hit the jackpot with this pair by Michael Kors, but here's a cheaper version that looks just as good.

I feel as though I've hit the jackpot!

As the advisor for this year's Prom at HKIS, I feel like I hit the jackpot for all the girls I know at school.

When he turned up he was very good looking — even better so than his profile pictures, and we hit the jackpot on conversation as had both been to the same university so had lots to talk about and reminisce over.

To be honest, as long as you are on internet dating sites, getting out and about with friends and colleagues in places you can meet girls, you are likely to eventually hit the jackpot.

As Carrie from «Sex and the City» (one of my favorite shows) once said, «People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates — hoping to hit the jackpot.

A divorce is decided upon in short order, but as fate would have it, they would hit a $ 3 million jackpot in the casino that will complicate the break - up since both think the pot is rightfully theirs (Jack plays the winning coin, a quarter that is Joy's).

When it works, they hit the jackpot, as with 2014's well - received Predestination.

You get the impression that Ryan Reynolds, who spent years shepherding the first picture to the big screen as producer and star, and hit a jackpot of a size he could not possibly have imagined, may have been a little intimidated by that success.

For example, when turned off, all the lights on the electronic air conditioner and heat - control panel would suddenly start flashing at 30 - second intervals as if someone in the car had hit an endless streak of jackpots.

Though there's nothing new, as has been the case ever since the iPad came on to the scene and hit jackpot right away.

Golombek has one more way to hit the jackpot with TFSAs: as a holding tank for risky stock picks.

You can either get nothing or hit the jackpot with both of your supports being ready for battle immediately as well as 40 percent of your synergy gauge filled.

As they hit their 70s and 80s, a big part of their connection centered around their dream of «jackpot riches.»

It is down slightly as we write, but our friend certainly hit a jackpot.

They all hit the jackpot, and then resign, on the spot, telling you to take your job and shove it you - know - where as they split for greener pastures with their millions in winnings.

I think I have hit the jackpot, and maybe you have as well.

For all that work, it seems even less likely to be able to compare bids from different lenders... if you can find two lenders that you can get competing bids from (on the same loan product), then you've hit the jackpot as far as I'm concerned.