complete and utter
adj1
Idiomatic Used to intensify; absolute; total.
- That movie was complete and utter trash. Do not watch it!
- The office had been established in connection with the Act passed by Lord Cairns, which it was well known was a complete and utter failure.1803, Great Britain. Parliament, William Cobbett, Thomas Curson Hansard, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, page 710:
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- I only knew that I had given her my confidence, that complete and utter confidence which neither wisdom nor power alone, can command.1896, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad, volume 7, page 350:
- Then a period of complete and utter nothingness - not a thought, not a vision, not a sound, nothing.2017, Michael Wise, On the Toss of a Coin, page 13:
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