Talk:golden spike
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Rfv-sense for the metaphorical usage "finishing touch; the final effort leading to a completed project, such as putting in the last nail". It seems reasonable, but I'm not sure how to search for it. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 07:21, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
Golden spike on Wikipedia.Wikipedia This is the one I know about. Donnanz (talk) 09:59, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
- The only figurative use in this century AFAICT from Google Books is in stratigraphy, where it refers to a designation of a given stratigraphic layer in a formation as the marker for the start of a geological time period [as the unchallenged definition says. d'oh]. Last spike is apparently used more commonly in railroad construction. DCDuring TALK 14:36, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
- Google News brings up a handful of results (1, 2, 3, 4), but it's not tremendously common. Smurrayinchester (talk) 15:03, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
- RFV-failed since the news links above don't look durable (huffingtonpost, for example, is online only AFAIK). - -sche (discuss) 19:00, 26 September 2015 (UTC)