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- noun As much as a
bucket can hold - noun informal A large amount
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Examples
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Of course I can find wild assertions by the bucketload aka acres of prejudice, but nowhere do I see anything approaching a rigorous and factual analysis to support the assertion of 'His Girl Friday' to that effect, and your own comment following my own there that:
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This album is a bucketload of fun, although bizarrely programmed with the hits taking up the first third and a buttload of indistinguishable covers from Sha-Na-Na (anybody remember their variety show?) taking up the middle.
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In Military SF and Epic Fantasy the same old reactionary shite is still churned out by the bucketload, and readers lap it up.
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Seriously if studios want dumb movies to that make a bucketload of money, how difficult is to come up with one?
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If in order to earn a bucketload of money from the audience gathered to see this daring feat we have to operate on the presumption that you can brake in time, we might nevertheless be well-advised to bear in mind the possibility of being proven wrong.
Towards a Lexicon of Folly: Factard Hal Duncan 2010
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There is "uncivil behaviour" by the bucketload; screens heaving with what Reuters calls "repetition, [issues of] taste, legal risk or political bias".
Reuters blocks anonymous comments in bid to cast out 'uncivil behaviour' Peter Preston 2010
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It works both to, from or between Gmail accounts and supports a bucketload many more email services.
Gmail Makes Hotmail Switching Easier | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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This album is a bucketload of fun, although bizarrely programmed with the hits taking up the first third and a buttload of indistinguishable covers from Sha-Na-Na (anybody remember their variety show?) taking up the middle.
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At the burn-rate of funds for Ares, one could pay LM to man-rate Atlas and buy a whole bucketload of them for the same funds as getting the first Ares 1 launched.
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Believe me, I know contempt from Fairfax when I see it and right now they are giving it to you by the bucketload.
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