all out
See also: all-out
English
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Adjective
all out (not comparable)
Adverb
all out (comparative more all out, superlative most all out)
- (idiomatic) With maximum effort.
- (idiomatic) Without regard for risk.
- (idiomatic) Altogether; by far.
- 1840, The Sea: Narratives of Adventure and Shipwreck, Tales and Sketches:
- Oh, bedad! He was all out the worst sight ever came across ould Ireland
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
- Intemperate Venus is all out as bad in the other extreame[sic].
Derived terms
Translations
with maximum effort
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without regard for risk
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