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all the rage

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  1. Also, all the thing. The current or latest fashion, with the implication that it will be short-lived, as in In the 1940s the lindy-hop was all the rage. The use of rage reflects the transfer of an angry passion to an enthusiastic one; thing is vaguer. [Late 1700s] These terms are heard less often today than the synonym the thing.


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Hear'Say were top of the pops, a mobile phone game called 'Snake' was all the rage and Tony Blair was Prime Minister.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

As I wrote in 2023, when the age issue was all the rage, “concern-trolling about the advanced age of government leaders hasn’t always been a path to political success.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

If ’00s revivals are all the rage in clothing and aesthetics, it stands to reason that the same would be true in cinema.

From Salon May 27, 2026

It’s been a feature of booms that asset-heavy companies’ shares were all the rage as they inflated.

From The Wall Street Journal May 11, 2026

Fortunately, cyclotrons were still all the rage, especially among biomedical foundations anxious to keep the supply of medical isotopes flowing.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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