rich seam

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a rich seam (formal)

a subject which provides a lot of opportunities for people to discuss, write about or make jokes about. Both wars have provided a rich seam of drama for playwrights and novelists alike. (often + of) His second novel mines the same rich seam of mother-son relations.

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