be nothing short of...
used to emphasize a situation, quality, or type of behaviour:
The party was nothing short of a disaster.
Her behaviour was nothing short of obnoxious.
His achievements as a political reformer have been nothing short of miraculous.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: intensifying expressions
- a heck of a sth/sb idiom
- a load of crap, nonsense, rubbish, etc. idiom
- all the way idiom
- annoy, frighten, scare, etc. the hell out of sb idiom
- anything
- as... as anything idiom
- be chilled/frozen to the marrow idiom
- clear
- core
- do you hear? idiom
- extreme
- hell of a idiom
- leastways
- like a ton of bricks idiom
- long
- more than idiom
- mortally
- out-and-out
- to hell idiom
- to your heart's content idiom
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