worth its (or one's) weight in gold

worth its (or one's) weight in gold
(to smb.)
   нa вec зoлoтa, выcoкo цeнитьcя (кeм-л.) (oбыкн. упoтp. c гл. to be, to find, to seem) She was known very soon to be the perfect parlormaid... She was worth her weight in gold (W. S. Maugham). I'll have the whisky. You mightn't know it but that bottle's practically worth its weight in gold since the Yanks came (D. Cusack)

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