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like candy

like candy prepositional phrase: freely (with no or few restrictions on distribution) and/or in large quantities.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (informal, simile) Freely (with no or few restrictions on distribution) and/or in large quantities.
    • But again, we run into this general problem. At some point you charge so much for your books that nobody uses them. … The staff is always on me because as Chairman I have the right to give some of these away and I'm giving them away like candy because I think they are so important to local...1959, Mr. Hawkins, regarding Public Law 86-380, 86th Congress, H. R. 6904, September 24, 1959, published in 1989, Treasury, Postal Service, and general government appropriations for fiscal year 1990...
    • You're making full-blown cures and giving them out like candy.2012, A. J. Caro, DNA 9419, page 78

Questions about like candy

What does like candy mean?
Like candy means freely (with no or few restrictions on distribution) and/or in large quantities.
What part of speech is like candy?
Like candy is a prepositional phrase.

Words near like candy in the dictionary

  1. like atomic clockwork
  2. like Blackpool Illuminations
  3. like breaking sticks
  4. like buggery
  5. like butter on a bald monkey
  6. like candy
  7. like cats and dogs
  8. like cheese at fourpence
  9. like clockwork
  10. like crack
  11. like crazy

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