enough to sink a ship

Idioms  

1. Also, enough to sink a battleship. A more than sufficient amount, as in They brought enough food to sink a ship. [Colloquial; mid-1900s]

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Example Sentences

"You're clever enough to sink a ship," he was once told, "but you'll never draw."

From Time Magazine Archive

Hydraulically powered and manipulated by the arm, Bruce is agile enough to sink a ship, which he does.

From Time Magazine Archive

It’s reported to be big enough to sink a ship.

From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin

We drank healths enough to sink a ship and Mrs. Barrington was sweetness itself.

From The Girls at Mount Morris by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

"Has debts enough to sink a ship, but floats through life as if she had never known what it was to be poor."

From The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir