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A pile of things so large counting becomes someone else's problem.
means An informal word for a large number or amount of something — 'a slew of emails,' 'a slew of complaints.'
from Borrowed into English from Irish 'sluagh,' meaning a crowd, host, or multitude — originally used of armies or throngs of people before it loosened up to cover any big unruly pile of stuff.
- origin
- from Irish slua, meaning crowd or army
- usage
- always informal, never shows up in legal documents
- sneaky twin
- unrelated to slay, slay's past tense, confusingly
- vagueness
- could mean four things or four thousand