Q: "gold dust" used figuratively?

[Bill Palmer]

IMHO, sounds more like that sort of thing  would be termed "fool's gold"
rather than "gold dust".

Bill Palmer
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> Where is the place (and what are early dates) for "gold dust" used
> figuratively, for example as something seductive but false?  It's not
> in the OED, nor in the few dictionaries of American slang I have.
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> Joel
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