| 词汇 | as all get out |
| 释义 | Idiom as all get outbe as [fast/hot/thin etc.] as all get out American & Australian, informal to be extremely fast, hot, thin etc..He's a terrific runner - as fast as all get out. as all get out as can be AUSTRALIA, 1964as all get outTo the highest or furthest possible degree; as much as one can imagine. Summers in Texas can be hot as all get-out. as all get outRur. very much; as much as can be. I'm tired as all get out. as all getoutTo the ultimate degree, as in She made him furious as all getout. The American writer Joseph C. Neal had it in his Character Sketches (1838): "We look as elegant and as beautiful as get out." Today it always includes all. [Colloquial; first half of 1800s] as — as all get outto a great or extreme extent. North American informal 1990 M. Scott Peck A Bed by the Window She could be as huffy as all get out. as all getoutTo the utmost, as much as possible. This homespun cliché dates from the first half of the nineteenth century, when it was usually stated as getout. Mark Twain wrote, “We got to dig in like all git-out” (Huckleberry Finn, 1884). It remains current. |
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