Idiom
bumper crop
Meaning
An excess of something; a large yield.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The farmers are happy because they have a bumper crop this year.”
“We have a bumper crop of tomatoes in our small garden this summer.”
“The store offers a bumper crop of discounts during the holiday sale.”
“After a season of perfect rain and sunshine, the orchard produced a bumper crop of apples that filled every basket.”
“The local library received a bumper crop of book donations this month, so they had to set up extra tables in the lobby.”
“The tech company is hiring many new graduates because they have a bumper crop of projects to finish by December.”
“The region enjoyed a bumper crop of wheat, which stabilized local food prices and allowed the community to export the surplus to neighboring provinces.”
Examples
simple
“The farmers are happy because they have a bumper crop this year.”
“We have a bumper crop of tomatoes in our small garden this summer.”
“The store offers a bumper crop of discounts during the holiday sale.”
contextual
“After a season of perfect rain and sunshine, the orchard produced a bumper crop of apples that filled every basket.”
“The local library received a bumper crop of book donations this month, so they had to set up extra tables in the lobby.”
“The tech company is hiring many new graduates because they have a bumper crop of projects to finish by December.”
complex
“The region enjoyed a bumper crop of wheat, which stabilized local food prices and allowed the community to export the surplus to neighboring provinces.”
Origin
From the noun bumper, denoting a thing of particular abundance or excellence, combined with crop to describe a remarkably large harvest. The term emerged from the sense of a bumper as something unusually large, with the compound being used to record agricultural yields that exceeded the standard expectation.
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