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to the tune of

  1. To the sum or extent of, as in They had profits to the tune of about $20 million. This idiom transfers tune, a succession of musical tones, to a succession of figures. [First half of 1700s]



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We subsidize highways to the tune of $32 billion a year, only to sit on them stewing.

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News outlets are spreading Trump’s out-of-proportion response to something he could’ve just laughed off, while “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” just aired a parody song to the tune of “Macho Man” titled — what else?

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The reasoning was that while both policy changes would affect the federal fisc to the tune of many billions of dollars a year, the changes were fundamentally about policy, not budgeting.

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The combination of these factors will reduce next year's growth to the tune of 0.3% by 2026, it said.

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The company is stuck with an inventory of somewhere in the vicinity of 10,000 units to the tune of about $800 million.

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