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Akdom Posted 17 years ago
Dictionary definitions don't make much sense to me.
"a large number?"
The more I read it, the more I feel it means "the new trend of 3-D movies"
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The new slew of 3-D movies
"Time to get out your popcorn and your Jujubes, and don't forget to silence your cell phones - oh yeah, get ready to don your 3-D glasses, because for the rest of the hour, we're going to the movies. And not just any picture show, but the new slew of 3-D movies. Chances are that if you seen an animated film this year or the next year, you'll have the..."What does the slew mean here in this context? "the new slew of?"
Dictionary definitions don't make much sense to me.
"a large number?"
The more I read it, the more I feel it means "the new trend of 3-D movies"
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My mother was using the expression before I was born, so it's got to be a hundred years old (well before 3-D movies). Aha, it's from the old Gaelic. I always took it as an unexpectedly large number of some things - an overwhelming number of some things.
- My mother was using the expression before I was born, so it's got to be a hundred years old (well before 3-D movies).
- Aha, it's from the old Gaelic.
- I always took it as an unexpectedly large number of some things - an overwhelming number of some things.
- It's not good or bad - just unexpected: I just went outdoors, and there were a whole slew of caterpillars crawling all over the sidewalk.
- We're about to be overwhelmed by / with caterpillars and 3-D movies!
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My mother was using the expression before I was born, so it's got to be a hundred years old (well before 3-D movies). Aha, it's from the old Gaelic. I always took it as an unexpectedly large number of some things - an overwhelming number of some things. It's not good or bad - just unexpected: I just went outdoors, and there were a whole slew of caterpillars crawling all over
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