in droves

English

Prepositional phrase

in droves

1. In large numbers, or great crowds.

   Synonym: in spades

   • 2002 October 31, Owen Gibson, “TV audiences desert news in droves”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Viewers are switching off news and current affairs programmes in droves with shows such as Panorama, Tonight with Trevor McDonald and even Watchdog failing to connect with audiences, a new report claims.

   • 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 79:

     The difference to 2020 has been marked. People have returned to the railway in their droves, far faster than the pessimists predicted - especially this year, now that international travel restrictions have been lifted, bringing back foreign tourism.

Translations

to excess

• Catalan: a dojo (ca)
• Dutch: in overvloed, te over, bij de vleet, in groten getale (nl)
• French: à la pelle (fr), en nombre (fr), en grand nombre (fr)
• German: in höchstem Maße
• Italian: in abbondanza, in quantità, in gran numero, a frotte
• Polish: od groma (pl)
• Russian: толпами (ru) f pl (tolpami), сполна (ru) (spolna)
• Spanish: a raudales, a mansalva (es), a porrillo (colloquial), a punta pala (Spain, colloquial), a patadas
• Turkish: fazlasıyla (tr), ziyadesiyle (tr)