idiomUSinformalused to refer to a verygreatamountof something or a very good thing:极多的;极大的;极好的That's awhaleof astory.那个故事棒极了。Another thousanddollarswould make awhaleof adifference.再有1000美元的话,情况就大不相同了。SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesEnormous
almighty
astronomical
astronomically
behemoth
bumper
by far and awayidiom
cavernous
immeasurable
immeasurably
immense
immensity
inordinate
mountainous
precipitous
prodigious
prodigiously
stratospheric
super-colossal
supersized
thumping
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a whale of a
idiomalargeamountof something:A whale of a lot of otherpeoplewere there, too.a whale of aIf something is a whale of a thing, it is a very good thing:Perry's done a whale of ajobfor us.(Definition ofa whale of afrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/whale-of-a##