in the thousands
成語所屬單字thousands
in the thousands — 慣用語
1. Used to state that a quantity falls somewhere between 1,000 and 1,000,000, espec
1.慣用語
釋義
數以千計
Used to state that a quantity falls somewhere between 1,000 and 1,000,000, especially when the exact figure is unknown or unimportant.
例句
Evelyn does not know the exact number, but she estimates the crowd at the concert was in the thousands.
Once numbering in the thousands, the local salmon population has now fallen to just a few hundred.