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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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In the late 1990s, tech stocks were all the rage.

From The Wall Street Journal

And Yale hasn’t won one since 1927, a time when dancing the Charleston and reckless stock-market speculation were all the rage.

From The Wall Street Journal

At a time when “world music” was all the rage, Morse came to Haiti in 1987 for musical inspiration.

From The Guardian

The Exotic Auto Rifle was all the rage in the Crucible, a gun that did more damage when the sight was used and healed you with some of its bullets.

From Forbes

The ambition to be foremost becomes, ere long, the ruling, and almost universal, passion—in still stronger language, “it is all the rage.”

From Project Gutenberg

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