by the gross

by the gross figurative in large numbers or amounts 〈喻〉大量地, 大宗地： impoverished Mexicans who were arrested here by the gross. 在这里被大批逮捕的穷困的墨西哥人。

• samarras
• irreproachably
• ink-pads
• episcieritis
• postvaccinal
• cycle
• prothalloid
• impractical
• gnarliness
• throw open one's door to
• Frederick William
• emotional cripple
• perihelia
• stormless
• tuffet
• decontaminative
• reefer
• get back on the rails
• throttlers
• brushland
• furrin
• Ashtabula
• conventionalisms
• apodization
• settle in also 又作 settle into sth
• theophagy
• dark minerals
• seroconvert
• sottishly
• behind the times
• masonry drill
• lockhouse
• ox-
• blue milk
• culdotomy
• concessionaires
• bombazines
• land yacht
• megahit
• escalopes
• lag phase
• bogbean
• autoimmunize
• acierage
• pachisis
• selling prices
• pluralizes
• planches
• developmental
• tetracosanes
• be hard on sb/sth
• field magnet
• strobilae
• read someone like a book
• do sb wrong
• frilliness
• anemophilous
• a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• retrograding
• tortuosities
• castle-builder
• chattering classes
• spriggier
• sit ... out
• jump on/upon
• bottom house
• Muridae
• pour out/open your heart to sb
• figure in
• prudences
• on the crest of a wave
• bell ringers
• senescent
• proton binding energy
• double occupancy
• spekbooms
• pachydermatously
• contin
• beaconage
• expediting
• upon my word
• coxae
• with calf
• inexertions
• take to one’s bed
• saxe blue
• idols of the tribe
• iffily
• Corona Australis
• Freon-12
• in a flat spin
• polydomous
• AFTRA
• phenetidine
• sores
• lyrical
• Peruvianization
• egos
• mappists
• cadmium hydroxide