something terrible

adv

something terrible

adv
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Colloquial To a great degree.

  • I've got the hiccups something terrible, Mom.1988 November 16, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes:
  • You see the streets have me stressed somethin' terrible.1994, Nas, “"One Love"”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
1 more example
  • I pamper them babies somethin terrible.1999 Nov/Dec, E Annie Proulx, “The Blood Bay”, in Literary Cavalcade, volume 52, number 3, page 8:
Related terms
something awful, something bad, something fierce, something good

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