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单词 a whale of a
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a whale of a

US informal

used to refer to a very great amount of something or a very good thing:

That's a whale of a story.
Another thousand dollars would make a whale of a difference.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Enormous

  • almighty
  • astronomical
  • astronomically
  • behemoth
  • by far and away idiom
  • huge
  • humungous
  • immeasurable
  • immense
  • immensity
  • mountainous
  • overwhelming
  • precipitous
  • prodigious
  • sth knows no bounds idiom
  • stratospheric
  • terrific
  • thumping
  • walloping
  • yawning

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a whale of a

a large amount of something:

A whale of a lot of other people were there, too.
a whale of a

If something is a whale of a thing, it is a very good thing:

Perry's done a whale of a job for us.
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