in spades
Pronunciation Prepositional phrase
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Pronunciation Prepositional phrase
- (idiomatic) In large quantities; to a high degree; to excess, without restraint.
- Last year we harvested almost no potatoes, but this year we're getting them in spades.
- 1954, Richard [Pike] Bissell, High Water (Atlantic Monthly Press Book), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, OCLC 760577 ↗; republished St. Paul, Minn.: Minnesota Historical Society, 1987, ISBN 978-0-87351-221-3, page 115 ↗:
- "He is three times that bad in spades," I said. "He ain't washed his socks in four months for one thing," […]
- Synonyms: in droves
- (idiomatic) Beyond doubt.
- (in large quantities; to a high degree) abundantly, but good
- French: à la pelle
- German: in höchstem Maße
- Italian: in abbondanza, in quantità, in gran numero, a frotte
- Russian: толпами
- Spanish: a raudales, a mansalva, a porrillo (colloquial), a punta pala (Spain, colloquial), a patadas
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