Michael Leunig

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.

Australian Cartoonist

Geraldine Brooks

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

Australian Journalist

Refers to the maximum items one can hold using arms - not strictly quantifiable.

Physical Capacity

Sometimes used metaphorically to express a large, but vague, quantity.

Abstract Use

Suggests the effort taken to carry something, often implying it's heavy or awkward.

Measure of Effort

 So I was staring at this animal about six or seven inches away, and at that time I could actually focus that close; now as I look at my fuzzy fingers I realize those days are long gone. Anyway, there we were, staring at each other, and he reaches down and grabs an armful of gravel

Armful

Physical Capacity

Abstract Use

Measure of Effort

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