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Monthly Archives: September 2017
Coming, Going, and Out in Droves
What is a drove, and why do people come out in them? If you didn’t know any better, the way the word is used might lead you to think it’s a kind of conveyance (“They came out in droves. Have … Continue reading
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Tagged crowd, drove, drover, droves, figurative, flock, herd, idiom, in droves, literal, old english
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