Another thousand dollars would make a whale of a difference.
We ran up a whale of a bill in the restaurant.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
whale — whale1 /hwayl, wayl/, n., pl. whales, (esp. collectively) whale, v., whaled, whaling. n. 1. any of the larger marine mammals of the order Cetacea, esp. as distinguished from the smaller dolphins and porpoises, having a fishlike body, forelimbs… … Universalium
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