strike it big

Experts say that executives who strike it big can present a conundrum for boards who want to retain and motivate them.

Statisticians noted that it was not mathematically impossible for 433 winners to strike it big.

The group released its first album, “Introducing the Seekers,” in 1963, but did not strike it big until the next year, when it took a gig on an ocean liner and ended up staying in England indefinitely.

Poor men hoping to strike it big stream to al-Ibediyya, the gold mining town north of Khartoum, on the banks of the Nile.

In the early 1980s, Danny Sullivan was one of those American drivers hoping to strike it big in Formula 1.