as all get out
as all get out
To the highest or furthest possible degree; as much as one can imagine. Summers in Texas can be hot as all get-out.
as all get out
Rur. very much; as much as can be. I'm tired as all get out.
as all getout
To the ultimate degree, as in She made him furious as all getout. The American writer Joseph C. Neal had it in his Character Sketches (1838): "We look as elegant and as beautiful as get out." Today it always includes all. [Colloquial; first half of 1800s]
as — as all get out
to a great or extreme extent. North American informal 1990 M. Scott Peck A Bed by the Window She could be as huffy as all get out.
as all getout
To the utmost, as much as possible. This homespun cliché dates from the first half of the nineteenth century, when it was usually stated as getout. Mark Twain wrote, “We got to dig in like all git-out” (Huckleberry Finn, 1884). It remains current.