"in spades" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the card game of bridge, in which spades is the highest suit. Perhaps influenced by phrases with similar meaning, in spadefuls or in spate.",
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          "text": "Last year we harvested almost no potatoes, but this year we're getting them in spades.",
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          "ref": "1954, Richard [Pike] Bissell, High Water (Atlantic Monthly Press Book), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, OCLC 760577; republished St. Paul, Minn.: Minnesota Historical Society, 1987, ISBN 978-0-87351-221-3, page 115",
          "text": "\"He is three times that bad in spades,\" I said. \"He ain't washed his socks in four months for one thing,\" […]"
        },
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          "ref": "1993 June 23, Patricia Leigh Brown, “Yellowstone’s landmark in logs”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2016-04-28:",
          "text": "Character the hotel has in spades. It begins at the parking lot, where bison roam.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 December 8, Justin Fox, “The top 10 everything of 2009: Top 10 best business deals: 2. JPMorgan Chase and the deals it didn't do”, in Time, archived from the original on 2016-04-23:",
          "text": "This caution hurt JPMorgan's profits at the time but paid off in spades in 2009, as the bank earned $8.5 billion in the first three quarters.",
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        "In large quantities; to a high degree; to excess, without restraint."
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        "(idiomatic) In large quantities; to a high degree; to excess, without restraint."
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        {
          "word": "in droves"
        },
        {
          "word": "abundantly"
        },
        {
          "word": "but good"
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      "glosses": [
        "Beyond doubt."
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        "(idiomatic) Beyond doubt."
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  "etymology_text": "From the card game of bridge, in which spades is the highest suit. Perhaps influenced by phrases with similar meaning, in spadefuls or in spate.",
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          "text": "\"He is three times that bad in spades,\" I said. \"He ain't washed his socks in four months for one thing,\" […]"
        },
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          "ref": "1993 June 23, Patricia Leigh Brown, “Yellowstone’s landmark in logs”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2016-04-28:",
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        "(idiomatic) In large quantities; to a high degree; to excess, without restraint."
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          "word": "but good"
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        "(idiomatic) Beyond doubt."
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