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1 lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers

2 innumerable

3 thousands upon thousands

1 to form pairs

2 to be in couples

1 to succeed or die trying (idiom)

1 one strand does not make a thread, one tree does not make a forest (idiom)

1 thermosphere

1 to be tempered into a steel

1 if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway

1 accumulated habits become custom

1 What a scandal!

2 Whatever next?

1 The army is completely routed. (idiom)

1 utterly defeated

1 lit. piling up dirt eventually creates a mountain (idiom)

2 fig. success is the cumulation of lots of small actions

1 established by popular usage (idiom); common usage agreement

2 customary convention

1 deeply ingrained

2 steeped in

1 drug addiction

1 Many little things add up to sth great.

2 Many little drops make an ocean. (idiom)

1 to come to nothing (idiom)

1 to unify