out and out
Related to out and out: look over
out and out
Thoroughly, wholly. This term preserves the old meaning of the adverb out as “to the conclusion” or “to an end” (from ca. 1300). Chaucer used it in Troilus and Criseyde (ca. 1374): “For out and out he is the worthiest, save only Ector.”
See also: and, out
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- own man/person, to be one's
- get (one's) tail (somewhere)
- get one’s tail somewhere fast!
- get one’s tail somewhere immediately!
- get one’s tail somewhere now!
- catty
- catty-corner
- at one's wits' end, to be
- to the full
- second, third, etc. hand