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hitting the jackpot

for a brief time at the beginning of the 1900s, the word ‘jackpot’ was associated with misfortune, hardship or being in trouble with the law

 

in his book, the cowboy, philip rollins used the phrase jackpot as an expression to signify a perplexing situation

 

in 1941, agnes morley cleaveland used the term in her book, no life for a lady‎...one of the characters needed to get “out of a jackpot”

 

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