lot

See:
  • a bad lot
  • a fat lot
  • a fat lot of good
  • a fat lot of good/help/use
  • a fat lot of use
  • a lot
  • a lot of
  • a lot of baloney
  • a lot of bunk
  • a lot of malarkey
  • a lot of moola
  • a lot of nerve
  • a lot of pluck
  • a lot of promise
  • a lot on (one's) plate
  • a lot, not much, etc. in the way of something
  • a whole lot
  • a whole lot more
  • a whole lot of (something)
  • all over the lot
  • bad lot
  • be the best of a bad lot
  • best of a bad bunch
  • best of a bad lot
  • by lot
  • carry (an amount of) weight
  • cast (one's) lot in with (someone or something)
  • cast (one's) lot with (someone or something)
  • cast lot in
  • cast lot with
  • cast lots
  • cast one's lot with
  • cast/draw lots
  • cover a lot of ground
  • cover ground
  • draw lots
  • draw straws
  • fall to (one's) lot
  • fall to someone's lot
  • fat chance
  • fat lot
  • get (a lot of) grief (from someone)
  • get (a lot of) stick (from someone)
  • get (some kind of) mileage out of (something)
  • get a lot of mileage out of
  • get a lot of stick
  • give (someone) (a lot of) stick
  • give and take
  • have (a lot) of bottle
  • have (an amount of) plates spinning
  • have (something) going for (one)
  • have a lot going
  • have a lot going for (one)
  • have a lot of bottle
  • have a lot of irons in the fire
  • have a lot of promise
  • have a lot of time for (someone or something)
  • have a lot of time for somebody/something
  • have a lot on
  • have a lot on (one's) mind
  • have a lot on (one's) plate
  • have a lot on mind
  • have a lot on one's plate
  • have a lot on the ball
  • have a lot to answer for
  • have a lot, anything, etc. on
  • have a lot, something, nothing, etc. going for you
  • have anything on
  • have enough on (one's) plate
  • have enough on your plate
  • have enough, a lot, etc. on your plate
  • have going for one
  • have nothing going for (someone or something)
  • have several irons in the fire
  • have something on the ball
  • have something/a lot on the ball
  • have too many irons in the fire
  • have too much on plate
  • heck of a lot of
  • hell of a lot of (something)
  • in the way of (someone or something)
  • irons in the fire, lots of/too many
  • it, etc. says a lot, much, etc. about/for somebody/something
  • job lot
  • keep (an amount of) balls in the air
  • keep (an amount of) plates spinning
  • leave a lot to be desired
  • leave a lot, much, etc. to be desired
  • leave lots to be desired
  • lose (some amount of) time
  • lose money on (something)
  • lot lizard
  • lot of
  • lot of give-and-take
  • lot of hooey, a
  • lot of nerve
  • lot of promise
  • lots of
  • lots of love (from)
  • lots of luck
  • Lots of luck!
  • lots of people or things Go to a lot of
  • lots of promise
  • make (an amount of money) on (something)
  • make noise (about something)
  • no shortage of lots of
  • not a (whole) lot
  • not do a lot for (someone)
  • not do anything for (someone)
  • not do anything/a lot/much for somebody
  • not have a lot on
  • not have anything on
  • not put (a lot of) stock in (something)
  • not the only fish in the sea
  • pay scot and lot
  • pay scot and lot (for something)
  • plate, to have a lot/enough on one's
  • put (one) to a lot of expense
  • quite a bit
  • quite a lot
  • save (an amount of) (money) on (something)
  • say a great deal about (someone or something)
  • say a lot about (something)
  • see a lot of (one)
  • see a lot, nothing, etc. of somebody
  • show (a lot) of bottle
  • spend (something) for (something)
  • spend (something) on (someone or something)
  • take (a lot of) stick (from someone)
  • take a load off mind
  • take a lot of nerve
  • take a lot of nerve (to do something)
  • take a lot off (of) (one's) mind
  • take a lot out of
  • take a lot out of (one)
  • Thanks
  • thanks a lot
  • the best of a bad bunch/lot
  • the best of the lot
  • the last of the lot
  • the whole lot
  • there are plenty/lots more fish in the sea
  • there's a lot to be said for (something)
  • there's much to be said for (something)
  • think a lot of
  • think a lot of (someone or something)
  • throw a lot of light on (something)
  • throw in (one's) lot with (someone or something)
  • throw in your lot with
  • throw in your lot with somebody
  • throw in your lot with someone
  • whole heap more
  • you lot
  • you've got a lot of nerve
References in classic literature
When Er and the spirits arrived, their duty was to go at once to Lachesis; but first of all there came a prophet who arranged them in order; then he took from the knees of Lachesis lots and samples of lives, and having mounted a high pulpit, spoke as follows:
Republic
They seemed especially interested in children and vacant lots. When I overtook them and stopped to say a word, I found them affable and confiding.
My Antonia
These two are to be sold tomorrow, in the same lot with the St.
They had been taught to read and write, diligently instructed in the truths of religion, and their lot had been as happy an one as in their condition it was possible to be.
Uncle Toms Cabin
The very morning that his eldest child, Eudosia, made her valuable acquisition, in my person, Henry Halfacre, Esq., was the owner of several hundred lots on the island of Manhattan; of one hundred and twenty-three in the city of Brooklyn; of nearly as many in Williamsburg; of large undivided interests in Milwaukie, Chicago, Rock River, Moonville, and other similar places; besides owning a considerable part of a place called Coney Island.
Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief
White's did--that is, I ate hers, you know, lots of it.
Pollyanna
It was pretty ornery preaching -- all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was a good ser- mon, and they all talked it over going home, and had such a powerful lot to say about faith and good works and free grace and preforeordestination, and I don't know what all, that it did seem to me to be one of the roughest Sundays I had run across yet.
But it's jis' as well we didn't, 'kase now she's all fixed up agin mos' as good as new, en we's got a new lot o' stuff, in de place o' what 'uz los'."
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"Tha' has done a lot o' work for such a little wench," he said, looking her over.
"There's a lot of work to do here!" he said once, looking about quite exultantly.
Secret Garden
"I've been thinking a lot of our talk," he began, "and I've got an idea I'd like to give it a flutter.
It's a whole lot better place to live in than San Francisco.
Burning Daylight
Moss into action; imploring, commanding, bellowing, until down comes the hammer like fate, and we pass to the next lot. O Dives, who would ever have thought, as we sat round the broad table sparkling with plate and spotless linen, to have seen such a dish at the head of it as that roaring auctioneer?
Lift up the picture, Blowman, and let the company examine this lot." A long, pale, military-looking gentleman, seated demurely at the mahogany table, could not help grinning as this valuable lot was shown by Mr.
Vanity Fair
Yes, I made various acquaintances in the hamlet and a thing that gratified me a good deal was to find our new coins in circulation -- lots of milrays, lots of mills, lots of cents, a good many nickels, and some silver; all this among the artisans and commonalty generally; yes, and even some gold -- but that was at the bank, that is to say, the goldsmith's.
Connecticut Yankee