mil
thousand.
They have literally changed thousands of sexist job titles.
a las mil maravillas
marvellously [marvelously, -USA]
famously
like a house on fire
Carter has produced a marvellously researched biography of Anthony Blunt, the British art historian who worked as a spy for the Soviet Union.
He gets along famously with the head of reference, by the way.
Within ten minutes they joined into my discussion and then it rolled like a house on fire.
a miles
by the thousands
By the autumn of 1867, people were dying by the thousands.
cientos de miles
hundreds of thousands
tens of thousands
Note the automatic telephone exchange, which has hundreds of thousands of such contacts, and yet is reliable.
Tens of thousands of records per week can be handled in this way.
dar cien mil vueltas
beat + Nombre + hands down
win + hands down
There is no contest in the head-to-head battle for information services supremacy and Google, with its information 'now' and 'fast', beats others hands down.
Candy, soda, pizza and other snacks compete with nutritious meals everyday with the junk food variety winning hands down every time.
darle cien mil vueltas a Alguien
knock + spots off + Nombre
They have the potential to knock spots off the private sector and it is about time people in the country realised that.
decenas de miles
tens of thousands
Tens of thousands of records per week can be handled in this way.
durante miles de años
for aeons and aeons
for aeons
The knowledge that has been passed down from generation to generation by sentient beings on this planet for aeons and aeons is quite impossible to fully comprehend.
They have been through many hardships for aeons.
en abril, aguas mil
April showers bring May flowers
April showers
Just as April showers bring May flowers, it is often only after hard work, perseverance and planning that we see the benefit of our efforts.
April showers are officially here. As winter slowly recedes, the season of rain begins.
funcionar a las mil maravillas
work + a treat
work like + a charm
It works a treat and handles the embedded CRLF perfectly.
It worked like a charm.
hace miles de años
aeons ago
Again, in the past, as many aeons ago as there are grains of sand in the Ganges, a Buddha named Jewel Nature appeared in the world.
ir a las mil maravillas
go + great guns
go from + strength to strength
grow from + strength to strength
be fine and dandy
do + great guns
go + swimmingly
He said the growth in enrollment in health professions programs continues 'going great guns'.
This was achieved with great success, and the scheme goes from strength to strength.
Since then the group has grown from strength to strength developing a number of projects of mutual benefit.
Encouraging an interest in maths among grown-ups is fine and dandy, but kicking up a stink about the lack of maths teachers is far more important.
She is doing great guns and has turned in some fantastic work which really shows she's understanding what she's researching and learning.
She responded, all a-flutter, that it was going swimmingly as she had just come face-to-face with one of her hero's.
irle a las mil maravillas
never looked back ever since
Mick started his musical career as a singer and songwriter twenty years ago and has never looked back ever since.
llevarse a las mil maravillas con + Nombre
get on with + Nombre + swimmingly
She had counseled kindness and understanding (coupled with a little divination!), and got on with him swimmingly.
llevarse a las mis maravillas
get along/on + like a house on fire
But Salman and I got along like a house on fire from day one.
marchar a las mil maravillas
go + great guns
go from + strength to strength
grow from + strength to strength
be fine and dandy
do + great guns
go + swimmingly
He said the growth in enrollment in health professions programs continues 'going great guns'.
This was achieved with great success, and the scheme goes from strength to strength.
Since then the group has grown from strength to strength developing a number of projects of mutual benefit.
Encouraging an interest in maths among grown-ups is fine and dandy, but kicking up a stink about the lack of maths teachers is far more important.
She is doing great guns and has turned in some fantastic work which really shows she's understanding what she's researching and learning.
She responded, all a-flutter, that it was going swimmingly as she had just come face-to-face with one of her hero's.
miles
oodles
This way I do not litter my desk with oodles of photocopies and I can search for key words or phrases electronically within any scanned document.
miles de
thousands of
myriad
many hundreds of
There are now a number of degrees of integration: 'SSI' Small Scale Integration (tens of transistors on a single chip); 'MSI' Medium Scale Integration (hundreds of transistors); 'LSI' Large Scale Integration (thousands of transistors); and 'VSLI' (hundreds of thousands of transistors).
In addition, Britain has one of the most extensive bodies of legislation in the world, which is added to daily and encrusted with myriad rules and regulations.
In this time toy libraries have loaned many hundreds of toys to children and their families all around the country = Durante este tiempo, las ludotecas han prestado miles de juguetes a los niños y sus familias de todo el país.
miles de años
aeon [eon]
thousands of years
In general usage, an aeon (sometimes spelled eon ) is a period of time arbitrarily designated by humans.
In one form or another, cashiers have been around for thousands of years.
mil millones [Usado con el significado de mil millones en algunso países (por ej, USA) y de un millón de millones en otros (por ej, España)]
billion
Any number from 0 to 2 billion may be entered = Se puede introducir cualquier número entre 0 y 2 billones.
ponerse de mil colores
go + bright red
The Prime Minister went bright red when confronted over the long massages he was said to be receiving from a former topless model.
por miles
by the thousands
By the autumn of 1867, people were dying by the thousands.
que no se rompe en mil pedazos
shatterproof
The article is entitled 'The Glass Ceiling in Social Work: Is It Shatterproof?'.
salir a las mil maravillas
work + a treat
come up + a treat
go down + a treat
It works a treat and handles the embedded CRLF perfectly.
The window frames appeared to have not seen the light of day for over 50 years and were totally caked in dirt - although with some elbow grease the window came up a treat.
After only two days rehearsal we did a stormer of a gig from my point of view which went down a treat to a packed house.
sentar de mil maravillas
do + Pronombre + a power of good
do + Pronombre + a/the world of good
I took my mother to Southend for a holiday as she had been very ill & it did her a power of good.
Aria used to be Rosewood's resident weird girl - but that was before a trip to Iceland did her a world of good.
sentirse a las mil maravillas
feel like + a million dollars
feel like + a million bucks
Last night I slept like a baby and feel like a million dollars today!.
You'll accomplish nothing but you'll feel like a million bucks!!.
todo + ir + a las mil maravillas
everything + be + hunky-dory
'And I don't like the option of walking around smiling as if everything was just hunky-dory,' Meek put in = "Y no me gusta la opción de andar por ahí sonriendo como si todo marchase bien".
una imagen vale más que mil palabras
a picture is worth more than ten thousand words
The true meaning of the cliche 'a picture is worth more than ten thousand words,' is never more evident than when students first see themselves on camera after simulating reference interviews in the classroom.
una imagen vale mil palabras
every picture tells a story
The article 'Every picture tells a story' describes a new labelling system for the categorisation of library materials which includes a star-shaped badge for Westerns, a flower for gardening and plants, a tank for war, and a clown's face for 'funny stories'.
uno entre mil
one of a thousand
It seems that a certain prestige value was attached to the possession of this roll as it was accessible only to the elite ('one of a thousand') among the population.
