as all getout



as all getout

To 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]
See also: all

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NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Kumari-Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Telugu
TheÓDÓRa-Icelandic
Aghi-Ancient Scandinavian
KaukoKOW-koFinnish
Pomona-Roman Mythology
Borisbah-REES (Russian), BO-ris (German), BAWR-is (English)Bulgarian, Russian, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Georgian, German, History