something terrible
English
Adverb
- (degree, colloquial) To a great degree.
- 1988 November 16, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes:
- I've got the hiccups something terrible, Mom.
- 1994, Nas, “"One Love"”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- You see the streets have me stressed somethin' terrible.
- 1999 Nov/Dec, E Annie Proulx, “The Blood Bay”, in Literary Cavalcade, volume 52, number 3, page 8:
- I pamper them babies somethin terrible.
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