gold fever

1. (countable, uncountable)A feverish obsession with seeking gold ore; an era (figuratively an epidemic) during which this obsession grips a large number of people.

   He caught a real bad case of the gold fever that was going around at the time.

   That was during the gold fever, when strangers descended on the town and all the shovels were plum sold out at the general store.

   Goldfieber

   золотая лихорадкаzolotaja lixoradka

   золота́ лихома́нкаzolotá lyxománka

2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)An excessive craving for profit.

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