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单词 more than one can shake a stick at
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more than one can shake a stick at


A large quantity, more than one can count, as in Our town has more banks than you can shake a stick at. This idiom presumably refers to brandishing a stick as a weapon, but the precise allusion is unclear. [Colloquial; c. 1800]

Words nearby more than one can shake a stick at

more sinned against than sinning, more sol., Moresque, more than meets the eye, more than one bargained for, more than one can shake a stick at, more than one way to skin a cat, more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, More, Thomas, Moreton Bay bug, Moreton Bay fig
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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