winning lottery
Ticket to riches
A winning lottery is one where you hold a ticket that matches the drawn numbers, entitling you to a prize.
The phrase appears most often in winning lottery ticket or winning lottery numbers.
Figuratively, winning the lottery describes any stroke of extraordinary luck: Getting that job felt like winning the lottery.
- jackpotAccumulated gambling prize
- luckyFavored by chance
- millionsNumbers in seven figures
- lump sumEntire amount at once
- ticketEntry permit slip
ticket stub · numbers · lucky numbers · fortune · windfall · prize · drawing · powerball · riches · cash · odds · chance · once in a lifetime · scratch-off · millionaire · lotto · payout · financial advisor
- good fortunejackpot, windfall, lucky break, stroke of luck, golden opportunity
- life changesmarriage, death, divorce, birth, graduation
- wisheswish, make a wish, wish granted, wish fulfillment, wish list
- what-ifswhat if, hypothetical, thought experiment, speculation, conjecture
- futilityfutile, futility, in vain, pointlessness, vain
winning lotterygoing bankrupt
Legally insolvent status
financial ruin · bad luck · misfortune · catastrophic loss · going bust
winning lotteryearned income
Pay from work
working for a living · sweat equity · hard work · laboring · climbing the ladder
winning lotterycertainty
Total absence of doubt
sure thing · ordinary life · death and taxes · foregone conclusion · routine