Ton

I’ve got a ton of work to do.

I've got tons of work to do.

Their main problem is that they somehow believe that a 12-ton unit can handle this entire building.

Speed along the lane / Do a ton or a ton and twenty-five

Neil: How fast can this thing go then, do you reckon? Simon: Well, it's the special edition, so I reckon it could probably top a ton. Neil: Bollocks!

The HSDT team, however, had some work to do, although by the end of 1972 the power car interior had been adjusted and BR had agreed to 'double-manning' with extra pay when speeds topped the ton.

A clergyman cannot be high in state or fashion. He must not head mobs, or set the ton in dress.

If our people of ton are selfish, at any rate they show they are selfish.

[S]he thought herself incapable of being flattered by the attentions of a man she despised, because he was the reigning idol of the ton […].

The party might consist of thirty three Of highest caste—the Brahmins of the ton.

Pen was somewhat older than many of his fellow-students, and there was that about his style and appearance, which, as we have said, was rather haughty and impertinent, that stamped him as a man of ton—very unlike those pale students who were talking law to one another, and those ferocious dandies, in rowing shirts and astonishing pins and waistcoats, who represented the idle part of the little community.

He had no plans to marry. Ever. And there wasn’t much point in attending ton parties if one wasn’t looking for a wife.