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单词 like peas
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like peas
P2. Caribbean (chiefly Trinidad). like peas: in large quantities; in great numbers; to a considerable extent. licks like peas: repeated blows; a sound thrashing or trouncing (chiefly figurative, often in sporting contexts); cf. lick n. 4.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > a great quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > in large quantities
by (also at, in) wholesale1417
in great1447
by greatc1475
by the whole1592
by the yard1845
in block1870
in bulk1908
like peas1959
1959 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 2 June 12/4 We've won and will again. If we resign now, it will be licks like peas again.
1967 M. Anthony Green Days by River x. 67 This place have alligators like peas!
1989 Guardian (Nexis) 20 Nov. ‘Licks like fire, licks like peas, we're gonna bring the USA to their knees,’ goes one [football] chant.
2016 Fensic www.trinispeak.com 11 June (blog, accessed 25 Nov. 2020) One day, ah new supermarket open... People like peas line up outside dis new place.
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