more than one can shake a stick at

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A large quantity, more than one can count, as in Our town has more banks than you can shake a stick at. This idiom presumably refers to brandishing a stick as a weapon, but the precise allusion is unclear. [Colloquial; c. 1800]

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As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
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Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
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For more than a century, Americans have been fretting about these sorts of ghosts.
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In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
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Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
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Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
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He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
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Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.
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There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
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I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
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