‘if I was so all-fired bright why did I have to keep learning this same thing over and over?’
‘I was noting again the weird way in which the American press has done such a fine job reporting the scandal, and then turned around and done such an all-fired atrocious job analyzing the scandal.’
‘Calling your hero ‘The Man Without Fear’ doesn't really mean much when the audience can't clearly see what's supposed to be so all-fired frightening.’
‘So before I go spouting off about bishops full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, I think I should give them time and stop being so all-fired distrustful.’
‘But then, of course, it becomes all-fired difficult to explain why you think certain things should matter to everybody.’
‘The guy fails to explain how he can get articles like this published if Rome is so all-fired authoritarian and violent.’
‘Bryce, if you're so all-fired hot about people not being childless, carry them yourself.’
‘If you're after being so all-fired concerned about ‘good’ and ‘evil,’ then why not do something about it and be done with it?!’
‘I think I have a purpose to being here, as all-fired cheesy as that sounds.’
‘Well, maybe he should practice what he preaches, if it makes him so all-fired happy.’
‘So this is the real reason your daddy is so all-fired interested in getting rid of him.’
adjective
informal US
Extreme.
‘we were in such an all-fired hurry to get there’
‘You remember, we were in such an all-fired hurry to get there, that we couldn't wait until the United Nations actually completed their search for weapons of mass destruction.’
‘Being in a huge rush to condemn can be, shall we say, an all-fired source of trouble when we stand before the pearly gates.’
‘You're the one who's in an all-fired hurry this morning.’
‘If we had been in an all-fired hurry, we too would have abandoned our order and moved to another vendor.’
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