as all get-out

idiom

US, informal
: very or extremely
The café was (as) busy as all get-out this afternoon.

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The place is cinematic as all get-out, all Mughal architecture, lavish silks, elephant carvings and peacocks strutting the grounds. Ann Abel, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024 The play, which Jacobs-Jenkins wrote assuming that nobody would ever produce it, was wild as all get-out, with dreamlike interludes involving watermelons, enormous phalluses, and musical flatulence. Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024

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“As all get-out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20all%20get-out. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.

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