hundreds and thousands
Noun
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Noun
- An indefinite but emphatically large number.
- 1864 September 12, W. T. Sherman, letter to James M. Calhoun, E. E. Rawson and S. C. Wells, representing City Council of Atlanta, published in 1865, Joel Tyler Headley, Grant and Sherman: Their Campaigns and Generals, 2008, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_vPUobyiGvEC&pg=PA592&dq=%22hundreds+and+thousands%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=95CJT7fuA_HomAXznZjFCQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22hundreds%20and%20thousands%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 592],
- I myself have seen in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi, hundreds and thousands of women and children fleeing from your armies and desperadoes, hungry, and with bleeding feet.
- 1949, A.S. Altekar, State and Government in Ancient India, reprinted 2001, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Gb3Z2UovOjkC&pg=PA148&dq=%22hundreds+and+thousands%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dY-JT8WaLc3omAXS28DbCQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22hundreds%20and%20thousands%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 148],
- It is clear that the sentence rather refers to numerous favours conferred upon the city and country population, the monetary value of which amounted to hundreds and thousands of rupees or contemporary coins.
- 1864 September 12, W. T. Sherman, letter to James M. Calhoun, E. E. Rawson and S. C. Wells, representing City Council of Atlanta, published in 1865, Joel Tyler Headley, Grant and Sherman: Their Campaigns and Generals, 2008, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_vPUobyiGvEC&pg=PA592&dq=%22hundreds+and+thousands%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=95CJT7fuA_HomAXznZjFCQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22hundreds%20and%20thousands%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 592],
- (UK, Australia, NZ) Tiny balls or strands of multicoloured sugar, sprinkled over ice cream, desserts or party foods.
- 2003, Neil Wills, Surfers′ Paradise, Third Way, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=x613iHy96yMC&pg=PA12&dq=%22hundreds+and+thousands%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rpaJT4CsPKvqmAXw7vTKCQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22hundreds%20and%20thousands%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 12],
- So there you have them - Onoda, Gund, Eclipse - all squidged together on the same spoon, their flavours intermingling under a bleeding crust of hundreds-and-thousands.
- 2007, Pippa Cuthbert, Lindsay Cameron Wilson, Cookies!, New Holland Publishers (UK), [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=kBv0R-Aqv80C&pg=PA96&dq=%22hundreds+and+thousands%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Q4mJT_W7Ee_nmAXP9Ly-CQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22hundreds%20and%20thousands%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 96],
- Hundreds and thousands, commonly yet boringly called “sprinkles” in North America, are enough to make any child smile. Sprinkled over a cookie and sandwiched around creamy ice cream makes for sheer bliss!
- 2003, Neil Wills, Surfers′ Paradise, Third Way, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=x613iHy96yMC&pg=PA12&dq=%22hundreds+and+thousands%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rpaJT4CsPKvqmAXw7vTKCQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22hundreds%20and%20thousands%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 12],
- sprinkles (US)
- nonpareil (US)
- See also Thesaurus:sprinkles
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