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out and out, ˈout-and-ˈout, advb. phr. (a. and n.)
[Cf. out adv. 7 c.]
Thoroughly, completely, entirely; downright.
c1325Chron. Eng. 828 (Ritson) Tho hevede kyng Knout Al this lond out and out. c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 690 (739) For out and out he is þe worþiest, Saue only Ector. 14..MS. Rawlinson C. 86 (Halliw.) She was wyckyd oute and oute. 1483Cath. Angl. 264/1 Oute and oute; vbi halely. 1600Holland Livy xxxv. xxxii. 907 b, There was such a masse of gold brought, as would buy all the Romanes out and out. 1807Southey Lett. (1856) II. 14 If I chose to sell it out and out, as the phrase is, I might certainly get {pstlg}500 for it. 1880Mrs. E. Lynn Linton Rebel of Family II. xv, She is..the cleverest woman I know, out and out.
B. adj. Complete, thorough-going, unqualified, thorough-paced.
1813Europ. Mag. Sept. 266 Huffey White was, in the slang language, what is termed a complete out-and-out man; no species of robbery came amiss to him. 1831Edin. Rev. LIV. 232 We are..not among the out-and-out admirers of the..political opinions of this school. 1868E. Yates Rock Ahead ii. iv, They're the out-and-outest young scamps. 1887T. A. Trollope What I remember II. ix. 163 He was an out-and-out avowed Republican.
C. n. (nonce use). Something that extends or stretches farther and farther out.
1890J. H. Stirling Gifford Lect. iv. 69 Nature as the object..is a boundless out and out of objects, a boundless out and out of externalities.
Hence out-and-out v., to knock out, exhaust.
1813Sporting Mag. XLI. 100 Two or three buffers were out and outed by the hardness of the ground. |