out-and-outadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˌaʊt.əndˈaʊt/us/ˌaʊt̬.əndˈaʊt/complete or in every way; used to emphasize an unpleasant quality of a person or thing:
That's an out-and-out lie!
The whole project was an out-and-out disaster.
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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
- I'll be hanged if... idiom
- leastways
- like a ton of bricks idiom
- long
- more than idiom
- mortally
- to hell idiom
- to the core idiom
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