grow like Topsy
grow like Topsy
To rapidly grow or expand. Our small company has grown like Topsy over the past year, thanks in no small part to our aggressive new marketing campaign. Our puppy has grown like Topsy since we switched to a new brand of dog food.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
grow like ˈTopsy
grow very fast, particularly in an unplanned or uncontrolled way: After many contributions, our website has grown like Topsy, and is now being completely revised.Topsy was a female character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin.See also: grow, like, Topsy
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
grow like Topsy
Grow very quickly. This phrase alludes to the little African-American slave girl in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1851), who when asked where she came from, replied, “I ’spect I growed. Don’t think nobody never made me.”
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The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- topsy
- grow by leaps and bounds
- increase by leaps and bounds
- in leaps and bounds
- by leaps and bounds
- by/in leaps and bounds
- increase
- increase (something) by (something)
- play a small part (in something)
- in small part