Meaning of Sackful | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The amount a sack will contain.
2. A large number or amount (of something).
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“A sackful of sand won't help⟳ the soil here much, but a dump⟳ truck full would.”

“If I be not so rich, as to sowe almes by sackfulls, euen my Mite, is beyond the superfluity of wealth: and my pen, my tongue, and my life, shal (I hope⟳) helpe some to better treasure, then the earth affoords them.”

“Potatoes were getting very scarce. If you got a sackful you could take⟳ them down to the cook-house and swap⟳ them for a water-bottleful of coffee.”

“You live⟳ until you die⟳, and it doesn’t matter⟳ how you go; dead’s dead. So why carry⟳ on like⟳ a sackful of sick cats just because Herb Clutter got his throat cut⟳?”

“what can the Pope say⟳ more for his sackfull of traditions?”

“[…] away we went home again fraught with a Sackful of news to tell⟳ our Master.”

“1853, uncredited translators, German Popular Tales and Household Stories: Collected by the Brothers Grimm, New York: C.S. Francis, Volume I, 74. “The Fox and the Cat,” p. 381, […] I understand⟳ a hundred arts, and have⟳, moreover, a sackful of cunning!”

“Day and night the poor fellow raved, and always about that confounded orchid, the loss of which seemed to weigh⟳ upon his mind⟳ as though it were a whole sackful of unrepented crimes.”

“1986, Hanif Kureishi, “Bradford” in Granta 20, Winter, 1986, p. 163, He received sackfuls of hate⟳ mail and few letters of support⟳.”

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