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Asturian
Adverb
a punta pala
- in spades; heaps
1987, Luis Díez Tejón, Esta tierra en que nacimos:-¡Yá! Pues trai nel periódicu que los que garren meyor la enfermedá son los neños y tán cayendo a punta pala- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Spanish
Adverb
a punta pala
- (Spain, idiomatic, colloquial) in spades, in droves, loads, heaps, a shedload
- Synonyms: a mansalva, a paladas, a patadas, a raudales, a punta de pala
2011, Dan Lungu, El paraíso de las gallinas:Anda, Mitu, cuéntanos la de tu suegro, el que tenía parné a punta pala.- Come on, Mitu, tell us the one about your dad-in-law, the one who's got heaps of cash.