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Definition: All Too |
All TooAdverb1. To a high degree; "she is all too ready to accept the job". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: All TooSynonym: only too (adv). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | All too easy. (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett) Because our mortal journey is over all too soon. (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim) But then I learned, all too well, that a mere reporter like myself can't ever get to the truth in this city it's nearly impossible. (The Big O; writing credit: Masanao Akahoshi; Kei'ichi Hasegawa) Based on the findings of the report, my conclusion was that this idea was not a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious. (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Agriculture. Women on farms. Induction of much of America's manpower into the armed forces brings increased activity to U.S. farmer's wives, who, like Mrs. Harold Sontag of Maple Park, Illinois, finds the day all too short for the completion of her many c.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | All too often, parents who conduct their own research are overwhelmed by the difficulty in finding and organizing information. (references) | |
When the itchy red spots of childhood chickenpox disappear and life returns to normal, the battle with the virus that causes chickenpox seems to be won. But for all too many of us this triumph of the body's immune system over the virus that causes chickenpox is only temporary. (references) | ||
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Unfortunately, many Americans live on the outskirts of hope-some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many because of both. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | That price has increased as the military power of our major adversary has grown and its readiness to use that power been made all too evident in Afghanistan. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | You also have to agree that all those differences you just clapped for all too often spark hatred and division even here at home. |
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Expressions using "all too": all too few ♦ all too soon. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
all too human | 24 |
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| Language | Translations for "all too"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | allzu (all to, excessively, far to, far too, not any too, over, overly, too). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | túlontúl jól ismer vkit (to know sy all too well), nagyon is jól (all too well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | allay ootay alltför få (all too few). (various references) zamansız (all too soon, ill timed, inopportune, out of season, unseasonable, untimely), pek erken (all too soon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-l-o-o-t" | |
-1 letter: allot, atoll. | |
-2 letters: alto, loot, lota, olla, tall, tola, toll, tool. | |
-3 letters: all, alt, lat, loo, lot, oat, oot, tao, too. | |
-4 letters: al, at, la, lo, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-l-o-o-t" | |
+1 letter: axolotl, galloot, latosol. | |
+2 letters: axolotls, collator, football, footfall, footwall, galloots, latosols. | |
+3 letters: allocator, allotrope, allotropy, bookstall, collation, collators, collocate, colostral, corollate, faldstool, footballs, footfalls, footwalls, latosolic, polytonal, stoopball, tomatillo, ultracool. | |
+4 letters: algologist, allocation, allocators, allocution, allotropes, allotropic, balloonist, blastocoel, bookstalls, collations, collimator, collocated, collocates, colorectal, faldstools, footballer, lobulation, locational, notionally, optionally, oscillator, osmolality, pollinator, portabello, stoopballs, tomatillos, toroidally, volitional. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 6C      54 6F 6F |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01010100 01101111 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l l   T o o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 006C      0054 006F 006F |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3578782548181 |
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