with a vengeance

with a vengeance

Determinedly or passionately, perhaps fueled by anger. After my girlfriend dumped me, I started working out with a vengeance. We're going to have to clean with a vengeance to get the house ready in time.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

do something with a vengeance

Fig. to do something with vigor; to do something energetically as if one were angry. Bob is building that fence with a vengeance. Mary is really weeding her garden with a vengeance.
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with a vengeance

Cliché with determination and eagerness. The angry soldier attacked the enemy with a vengeance. Bill ate all his dinner and gobbled up his dessert with a vengeance.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

with a vengeance

With great violence or energy; also, to an extreme degree. For example, The cottage was filthy and Ruth began cleaning with a vengeance, or December has turned cold with a vengeance. This expression was first recorded in 1533. Also see with a will.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

with a vengeance

in a higher degree than was expected or desired; in the fullest sense.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

do something with a ˈvengeance

(informal) do something with great energy or force: After the holidays I need to start working with a vengeance. The rain came down with a vengeance.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

with a vengeance

1. With great violence or force.
2. To an extreme degree: December has turned cold with a vengeance.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.

with a vengeance

Forcefully, extremely hard. Vengeance in this old expression is not the same as “revenge” (see also revenge is sweet). It was already in print in 1533, in the same meaning it has today. “Be gone quickly, or my pikestaff and I will set thee away with a vengeance,” wrote George Peele (King Edward I, 1593).
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The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • do something with a vengeance
  • do with a vengeance
  • give (full) vent to (something)
  • give vent to
  • give vent to something
  • vent
  • broken heart
  • crack on
  • at it
  • like Grant took Richmond