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What is the target of "Shake the pagoda-tree" ?
Answers: Shake the pagoda tree - to become immensely rich suddenly
it is a term used when associates sees someone who suddenly become wealthy from an unknown source or it may be referred to someone who just this minute won the lottery
Pagoda is a temple usually built by the Buddhists with extraordinarily rich ornaments and decorations and there is a myth that every pagoda holds some unnoticed treasures and that is probably where on earth they got the phrase shake a pagoda tree, something resembling when you shake a tree that is as rich as a pagoda its approaching, gold and other treasures will decline down from it.
(idiomatic) to find a source of easy enrichment; to become preposterously rich in a little.
