by the thousand
by the thousand
In huge quantities, presumably numbering several thousand. When the potato famine hit Ireland, the Irish began emigrating by the thousand.
See also: by, thousand
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- by the thousands
- a thousand
- a thou
- thou
- picture
- thousand
- a thousand and one (something)
- never in a thousand years
- not/never in a hundred, etc. years
- batting