tons, loads and heaps of

Harry Enfield, Loadsamoney I belong to a fantastic international writing group . There, last week, I presented a paragraph that included " tons of something" (I can't actually remember what the noun was). A New Zealander in the group commented, "I suppose we'd say heaps of ." Indeed. Here are some imprecise, informal ways of expressing 'large quantities of' in the Corpus of Global Web-Based…