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enough to choke a horse

enough to choke a horse noun: an excessive quantity.

Noun

enough to choke a horse (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) An excessive quantity.
    • You didn't have to buy enough wrapping paper to choke a horse, just because it was on sale.
    • There's poison underneath the sink, of course.
      There's also enough formaldehyde to choke a horse.1999, Tom Waits, “What's He Building?”, in Mule Variations

Synonyms of enough to choke a horse

Questions about enough to choke a horse

What does enough to choke a horse mean?
Enough to choke a horse means an excessive quantity.
What part of speech is enough to choke a horse?
Enough to choke a horse is a noun.

Words near enough to choke a horse in the dictionary

  1. enough is as good as a feast
  2. enough is enough
  3. enough is too much
  4. enough said
  5. enough sense to pound sand into a rathole
  6. enough to choke a horse
  7. enough to choke a snake
  8. enough to go around
  9. enough to make a cat laugh
  10. enough to make a grown man cry
  11. enough to make the angels weep

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