all too
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4.7
- idiom
:
demasiado
- And although my experiences are unique, my struggle is all too common.
- all too often
- all too well
- all too familiar
Hidden in Plain Sight describes all too well the secrets that I write about.
- Hidden in Plain Sight describes all too well the secrets that I write about.
- Again, it's all too easy to take that fact for granted.
- I understand all too well why you feel the pressure to bleach.
- I'll give you an example from my own field paper that all too familiar opening.
- I remember it all too well.
- So let's let's use sports as an example. It's just all too easy not to use it. So
- This is an ancient analogy which is all too literal.
- But now he's going to focus on another key aspect of action that we all too often forget about.
- Warfare is all too often dehumanising.
- You know, as we, as we've seen in America all too recently, our infrastructure is crumbling.
- So in, in terms of, in the narrow goal that people set themselves, they can be all too rational.
- Now look, what I just said may be wrong and maybe he solved a big problem, it's just that we're all too stupid to understand it.
Examples
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I remember it all too well.
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It's all too common out there.
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Then it would be all too easy.
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Again, it's all too easy to take that fact for granted.
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But now he's going to focus on another key aspect of action that we all too often forget about.
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I turned to look at them, just once, then continued to watch the all-too-familiar sights outside the window.
Fiction book (1992) -
But the social benefits of the liberal arts are all too often hidden and difficult to articulate.
Academic text (1999) -
You know, as we, as we've seen in America all too recently, our infrastructure is crumbling.
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He left us all too soon, alas.
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I remember it all too well.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
More than is needed or wanted
189
3.5
To a degree that is too much or not wanted
32
3.0
To a degree that is more than needed or acceptable
21
6.9
More than is reasonable or necessary
7
7.5
To a much greater degree than is normal
Antonyms
How Excessive
Surface Forms
Morphology
all + too
The meaning 'to a much greater degree than is desirable; very/excessively' is directly derivable from combining 'all' (completely/entirely) with 'too' (excessively) — together they form an intensifier. This compositional intensifier pattern is common in English and cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The adverb all too may come from a simple picture: all meaning 'completely' and too meaning 'more than needed'. So all too keeps that image and makes something 'very' or 'more than is good'.