over nine thousand
- idiom
- Slang
:
más de nueve mil
- I've told you over nine thousand times to clean your room!
Examples
-
When she saw the final exam, her stress levels went over nine thousand.
-
There are over nine thousand reasons why I love this city.
-
People keep talking about the new movie's budget, claiming it's over nine thousand dollars.
-
The complaints about the new policy are over nine thousand by now.
-
I've told you over nine thousand times to clean your room!
-
The complaints about the new policy are over nine thousand by now.
-
When she saw the final exam, her stress levels went over nine thousand.
Synonyms
417
1.0
A very large number used to mean a lot without an exact count
158
1.4
Many people or things counted together
151
2.5
A very large, not exact number used to say there are many
24
7.0
A very large unknown number used to say something is much bigger than it is
8
5.6
A very large number that people use to show a lot
8
8.1
A very large number that people use to show exaggeration
1
1.0
A phrase that means many rather than exactly 101
1
9.2
To make something as intense or dramatic as possible
Very large in number with no exact amount and said as a joke
A made-up very large number that people use to mean a lot of things
Antonyms
How High
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally interpretable as ‘more than 9,000’, so a B1 learner who knows ‘over’, ‘nine’, and ‘thousand’ will understand it denotes a very large quantity. However, its common memetic/humorous use and the arbitrary selection of 9,000 as an emphatic marker are culturally specific and not fully predictable from the parts, so full pragmatic meaning may require exposure.
Etymology
Over nine thousand comes from a loud line in the anime 'Dragon Ball Z', where a character reads a machine and shouts 'It's over 9000!'. People online used that funny, strong shout to show something was very big, so today over nine thousand is used to say 'an extremely high amount'.