in droves

English

Prepositional phrase

In large numbers, or great crowds.
Synonym: in spades
- 2002 October 31, Owen Gibson, “TV audiences desert news in droves”, in The Guardian‎:
  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)

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