More than Carter's has pills In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "more than Carter's has pills", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Jimmy Hung calendar 2021-11-02 08:11

Meaning of More than Carter's has pills (redirected from more (something) than Carter('s) has (liver) pills )

More (something) than Carter('s) has (liver) pills old-fashioned

A great amount or number of something

She still doesn't stop shopping although she has more clothes than Carter has liver pills.

The company's got more financial problems than Carter's has pills. Sooner or later it goes bankrupt.

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be not so much (something) as (something else)

If you say that something is not so much one thing as something else, you mean it is less like the first thing than the second one.

Origin of More (something) than Carter('s) has (liver) pills

Carter's little pills began as Carter's Little Liver Pills, a patent medicine developed in 1868 by Erie, Pennsylvania's Samuel J. Carter. At one time, everyone knew Carter's Little Liver Pills because they were advertised widely. So widely, in fact, that it seemed Carter had an endless supply of pills—which is why the saying originated as "more than Carter has little liver pills."

The Origin Cited: southernliving.com .
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