"Up the wazoo" nghĩa là gì?

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"Up the wazoo" có "wazoo" là từ lóng mang nghĩa hậu môn -> cụm từ này nghĩa là số lượng rất lớn và nhiều, có thể đến thừa thãi. Chưa rõ nguồn gốc của cụm từ này là từ đâu.

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For me, each time I got to enter one of those universes was a thrill because I'm a grown-up geek kid with a comic book collection up the wazoo. My childhood was comic books. So when I knew that I was going to be General Var Suthra in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic , that was a big bing!

It will need to get its e-commerce side up to speed, fix 600 or so physical stores that have been severely under-invested in even as the malls they are often located in are dying slow deaths, find a compelling (hấp dẫn) promotional strategy that doesn’t involve endless one-day sales and coupons up the wazoo and generally remake a 119-year-old company that has been stubbornly resistant to change from both within and without.

Pyotr stops at an intersection (giao lộ), perplexed (lúng túng): there’s a surveillance camera hanging above an ideal wall for painting. “Minsk (thủ đô Belarus) has them up the wazoo, there’s also a smart system for identifying people. However, it doesn’t work when you need it to,” the artist explains. When he himself was beaten up by a group of strangers in civilian clothes (following the appearance of street art featuring portraits of the riot police (OMON) commander and the former interior minister), he wasn’t able to obtain any video surveillance footage.

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