From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstrike it richstrike it richRICHto suddenly make a lot of money → strike
Examples from the Corpus
strike it rich• And they could strike it rich!• For a time he really thought he was going to strike it rich.• Like 49ers infected with gold fever, big communications companies are rushing to the Internet with dreams of striking it rich.• Small companies strike it rich by going public on the stock exchange.• Efficient-market believers could strike it rich if they could persuade people to give up.• Wang told his people that hundreds of them would strike it rich if they followed his marketing techniques.• They're hoping to strike it rich in Las Vegas.• A camp that strikes it rich in the middle of a depression speaks as urgently to the well-trained as to the untrained. 