Literally, “like <span class="searchmatch">sand</span> at the sea”. IPA(key): /viː ˈzant <span class="searchmatch">am</span> ˈmeːɐ̯/ <span class="searchmatch">wie</span> <span class="searchmatch">Sand</span> <span class="searchmatch">am</span> <span class="searchmatch">Meer</span> (idiomatic) (in) an innumerable amount; extremely common...
hɪml̩] <span class="searchmatch">wie</span> ein Blitz aus heiterem Himmel (idiomatic) like a bolt out of the blue, like a bolt from the blue <span class="searchmatch">wie</span> vom Donner gerührt <span class="searchmatch">wie</span> <span class="searchmatch">Sand</span> <span class="searchmatch">am</span> <span class="searchmatch">Meer</span> aus heiterem...
comparable) (Austria, Bavaria, idiomatic, colloquial) in abundance, plentiful <span class="searchmatch">wie</span> <span class="searchmatch">Sand</span> <span class="searchmatch">am</span> <span class="searchmatch">Meer</span> “zum Saufüttern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache...
spielt in Rostock, er spielt in Warnemünde, und seine Schulden sind <span class="searchmatch">wie</span> <span class="searchmatch">Sand</span> <span class="searchmatch">am</span> <span class="searchmatch">Meer</span>. He gambles in Rostock, and he gambles in Warnemünde, and his debts...
Finnish: (mahtua) kolmetoista tusinaan French: à la pelle (fr) German: <span class="searchmatch">wie</span> <span class="searchmatch">Sand</span> <span class="searchmatch">am</span> <span class="searchmatch">Meer</span> (de), haufenweise (de), nachgeschmissen (de), nachgeworfen (de), hinterhergeworfen...