[1] By extension the phrase has come to mean the ground or tenement of a sluggard, or of one easily outwitted; or to mean any place where money is picked up and acquired readily.
[2] The phrase "Tom Tiddler's ground" also appears in Dickens's novels Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield and Dombey and Son.
Nancy Mitford in The Pursuit of Love (1949) writes, "Their life with Uncle Matthew was a sort of perpetual Tom Tiddler's ground."
The gold and silver coins in chapter 16 of C. S. Forester's Hornblower and the Atropos are said to be on Tom Tiddler's Ground.
"Tom Tiddler's Ground" is a song on the 1970 album Flat Baroque and Berserk by Roy Harper.