just about
adv1
Idiomatic Approximately, very nearly.
- ‘Have you already reached your sales target?’ ‘Just about.’
- I’m (just) about ready.
1 more example
- Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC: