Sentences with phrase «hitting the jackpot for»

According to Pew Research Center, only a third are working for a «good wage» of $ 45,000 a year, which sounds like hitting the jackpot for some college grads but has been cut in half since 1990.

After making my way from forever21 and H&M I stopped at Old Navy and it was literally like hitting the jackpot for white dresses.

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.

In 1993 he hit the jackpot for authors: an appearance on «Oprah.»

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.

Disney bought social game maker Playdom in 2010 for about $ 563 million and last year hit the mobile jackpot with the children's game Where's My Water?

On one such gambling outing, they left behind a memo for their bosses: «If we don't show up Monday, it's because we hit the jackpot,» it read.

If you're still living like a broke college student, getting a check for a few hundred or a few thousand bucks may feel like hitting the jackpot.

But are they to be lauded for hitting the jackpot with an important source of funding for public programs?

I was struggling looking for recipes but now feel like I've hit the jackpot!

If you're looking for a vegan alternative to ranch dressing, then you've reached heaven's gates and hit the jackpot!

I've been looking for gluten - free options for sweets that only have nut flour for a long time now, and I've hit the jackpot!!!

I was having a problem for awhile with stores being inconsistent with carrying Halo Top, but I hit the jackpot and recently found a store near me in Carlsbad that had a nicely stocked Halo Top shelf.

If her first collegiate season was any indication, Rhode Island hit the jackpot when it convinced Yeager to literally go coast - to - coast for her education and continuation of her softball career.

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.

Celtic supporters must have thought they hit the jackpot when a midfielder tipped for great things at AC Milan arrived.

With such a strategy, any casting error might have terrible repercussions for the club, but they just keep hitting the jackpot and getting adequate replacements for cheap prices every time they lose one of their key players, the most recent case being Jackson Martinez picking up where Falcao had left off.

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 Bendtner.

Why parents love it: There is plenty of space for the kids to run around, picnic tables for packed lunches, clean public restrooms and a spontaneous sprinkler system that will have the kids feeling like they hit the jackpot.

After checking out Target and Kohl's, both of which have a few business separates options but are better suited for casual wear, we hit the jackpot at Destination Maternity in Natick.

Two weeks after a local woman hit the Win - for - Life jackpot at a Modena Stewart's, a Catskill man won $ 1 million with a Powerball ticket.

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.

«When we looked for the bacteria in the fireworm, we hit the jackpot,» says microbiologist Eugene Rosenberg.

EXPLORING a gorge in south - east France in 1994 for prehistoric artefacts, Jean - Marie Chauvet hit the jackpot.

Here's some good news for the New Year: According to new research by Washington University in St. Louis and Cornell University, there's a 1 in 9 chance that a typical American will hit the jackpot and join the wealthiest 1 percent for at least one year in her or his working life.

Those who are looking for something out of the ordinary run of entertainment in St. Louis have hit the jackpot this weekend.

If you've been looking for an excuse to redecorate, then you just hit the inspiration jackpot: Lilly Pulitzer and Pottery Barn Kids have launched a major collaboration!

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I've been looking for a pair that is distressed and under $ 100, and hit the jackpot with this weekend's sale at Express!

I've been on the hunt for a simple black skirt, and I hit the jackpot in this one.

Having trawled the Internet for ideas to get this buildup of hairspray out of my hair, I finally hit the jackpot visiting this site — and many thanks to Beth who came up with this fabulous idea.

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 hadn't shopped for clothes there in forever and hit the jackpot!

I'm leaving a comment for this post and the one before But first just wanting to tell you i hit the jackpot when i met my future husband!

If you want cute tights for your baby, you've hit the jackpot.

I truly hit the jackpot when I discovered my ridiculously warm, soft, and I got ta use it again, cozy poncho / button - front cape at a Roberta Freymann sample sale years ago for, I kid you knot, $ 30.

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 long - term relationship is for the sugar babies who only want to hit the jackpot once.

For any Sugar Baby, that's looking for a serious sugar relationship, we all want to hit the jackpot and find ourselves a millionaire or even a super wealthy Sugar Daddy, who will spoil us and spend cash on For any Sugar Baby, that's looking for a serious sugar relationship, we all want to hit the jackpot and find ourselves a millionaire or even a super wealthy Sugar Daddy, who will spoil us and spend cash on for a serious sugar relationship, we all want to hit the jackpot and find ourselves a millionaire or even a super wealthy Sugar Daddy, who will spoil us and spend cash on us.

Blandings may turn out to be too citified for small - town audiences, and incomprehensible abroad; but among those millions of Americans who have tried to feather a country nest with city greenbacks, it ought to hit the jackpot.

A second time out for the tubby high - kicking panda was always on the cards once DreamWorks hit the jackpot with the original animation.

But it was with The Artist in 2011 that he hit the jackpot, marrying his gift for period recreation with a story of genuine depth and warmth.

Hooper, with The Damned United under his belt, and the highly praised John Adams series for HBO, has hit the jackpot with the Weinsteins behind him.

Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider hit the gender jackpot with their tough - loving advice book for women The Rules... (the sequel The Rules for Marriage... proved less convincing when Fein's marriage imploded).

When Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small - time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he's hit the jackpot — fame and fortune are his for the taking — that is until he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone's been expecting.

Fact is, our hero doesn't much care what his long - suffering wife and kids think or feel; he's jonesing for a best - seller, having last hit the jackpot 15 years ago.

The beach at Nazare, Portugal, Praia do Norte, is famous for their REALLY big waves and Burle hit the jackpot thanks to the St. Jude storm that had recently hit the European area.

Managing to blag a pass to Aston Martin Racing's hospitality on the Friday night meant best behaviour, but for the Saturday evening during the race, one of my friends had hit the jackpot, managing to book the Restaurant des Hunaudières located on the Mulsanne Straight.

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.

The penny is beginning to drop for indie and self - published authors but it's certainly not hitting the jackpot it should for most.