enough to choke a horse
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[edit]enough to choke a horse (uncountable)
- (idiomatic, informal) An excessive quantity.
- You didn't have to buy enough wrapping paper to choke a horse, just because it was on sale.
- 1999, Tom Waits, “What's He Building?”, in Mule Variations:
- There's poison underneath the sink, of course.
There's also enough formaldehyde to choke a horse.