all kinds of adv.
(US) extremely, a great deal of.
DN III:i 68: all kinds of time, n. phr. Plenty of time [...] all kinds of times, n. phr. An extremely good time. | ‘Words from Northwest Arkansas’ in||
letter 31 Mar. in Tomlinson Rocky Mountain Sailor (1998) 314: [W]hat do you think he did? Beat it for the door and left me standing there looking forty-seven kinds of a fool! | ||
letter 6 Dec. in Channing War Letters of Edmond Genet 252: I’m writing you and every one every kind of warmest wishes for a bright Christmas time, dear little Mother. | ||
With the Secret Service in Morocco 20: I stared through the smoke haze and felt all sorts of a rotter. | ||
Scourge of the Desert 39: I felt every sort of a skunk for having treated Lalla as I had . | ||
McCann of the Legion (1941) 187: ‘It’s your funeral but you are ten different kinds of a fool to tie yourself up with a woman like she is’. | ||
Always Leave ’Em Dying 82: [I] reached the wooden stand where Trammel was still speaking, giving Miller all kinds of hell. | ||
in Hellhole 126: And some of them is policy bankers now and all kinds of money. | ||
Cogan’s Trade (1975) 32: The other game got knocked off [...] and there was all kinds of shit. | ||
Campus Sl. Mar. 1: all kinds of – intensifier [...] That Mike is all kinds of bad. | ||
Vinnie Got Blown Away 50: Ask for tea and get all kinds of muck [...] probably better you smoked it. | ||
Permanent Midnight 72: A succession of Armani’d mooks who pulled down all kinds of money. | ||
Turning (2005) 312: The boy called him five kinds of fucking cunt. | ‘Defender’ in||
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Glorious Heresies 59: ‘I’m all kinds of fucked up and you haven’t noticed yet’. |