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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]
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Grace Huntington was hired in the story department in 1936, and was gutsy as all getout—as an amateur aviator, she set altitude records.
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“Carrying 88 rounds is heavy as all getout, I’ll tell you.”
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