Meanings
- informalsimileFreely (with no or few restrictions on distribution) and/or in large quantities.
You're making full-blown cures and giving them out like candy.
2012, A. J. Caro, DNA 9419, page 782 more examples
But again, we run into this general problem. At some point you charge so much for your books that nobody uses them. … The staff is always on me because as Chairman I have the right to give some of these away and I'm giving them away like candy because I think they are so important to local communities.
1959, Mr. Hawkins, regarding Public Law 86-380, 86th Congress, H. R. 6904, September 24, 1959, published in 1989, Treasury, Postal Service, and general government appropriations for fiscal year 1990, hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session, part 4 (United States House Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations)"I suppose it could be. Course it could belong to any number of people, what with the feed store giving them out like candy."
2020, Connie Mann, Beyond Power
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