elephant dose

English

Noun

elephant dose (plural elephant doses)

  1. (of drugs) a large amount
    • 2014, Bo Brock, Crowded in the Middle of Nowhere: Tales of Humor and Healing from Rural America, Austin, Texas: Greenleaf Book Group Press, →ISBN, page 73:
      Even with an elephant dose of sedative, the horse was still kicking at him when he tried to clean the wound.
    • 1992, Gloria Dank, As the sparks fly upward, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 69:
      She had to be put to bed with an elephant dose of tranquilizers.

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