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Thursday, March 20, 2008
Terrible Grammar
I know that "all get out" seems to be used as a simile to create an easy superlative for just about anything, but does anyone know the origin of, or basis for, the phrase?
as all get-out to an extreme degree. I know this sounds as strange as all get-out, but I feel like I met you before. Usage notes: used after an adjective
The utmost degree that is possible or even imaginable: “It's snowing like all get-out up here”
I will try to vow with you, but will most likely forget I have vowed such a vow and will find myself somewhere, someday, muttering these very words. Old age . . . it's a terrible thing! J
6 comments:
Kerri, cleaning up the English language one phrase at a time!
Hope you are feeling better. I missed you last night.
Love ya
J
here's what i could come up with:
as all get-out
to an extreme degree. I know this sounds as strange as all get-out, but I feel like I met you before.
Usage notes: used after an adjective
The utmost degree that is possible or even imaginable: “It's snowing like all get-out up here”
I vow to never say "as all get-out"
I will try to vow with you, but will most likely forget I have vowed such a vow and will find myself somewhere, someday, muttering these very words. Old age . . . it's a terrible thing!
J
My co-worker for said it and like the jokester he is, said it's from a french guy named "Gedout." I never believed him for a second.
I have no idea what that means!!!
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