six ways to Sunday

English

Alternative forms

• two ways to Sunday, three ways to Sunday, four ways to Sunday, five ways to Sunday, seven ways to Sunday, eight ways to Sunday, nine ways to Sunday, ten ways to Sunday, twelve ways to Sunday, twenty ways to Sunday, forty ways to Sunday, hundred ways to Sunday, six ways from Sunday

Adverb

six ways to Sunday (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic, colloquial) thoroughly, completely, in every way imaginable
   • 1997: G.I. Jane (movie)

     He will fry me six ways to Sunday for sending daughters and young mothers off to war -- and, quite possibly, for bringing them back in body bags.

   • 2004: Frasier (TV, episode 11.13)

     If she chips so much as one of my porcelain piggies, I'll sue her six ways to Sunday!

   • 2010, Regina Perry - I Kissed a Girl: A Virgin Lesbian Anthology

     Her eyes were the color of bittersweet chocolate, made up in that sexy smudged I've-just-been-fucked-six-ways-from-Sunday look that I could never emulate without looking like I'd been sucker punched.