all too
English
editAdverb
editall too (not comparable)
- Very, extremely; excessively (but lamentably).
- Teenage pregnancies are all too common in the UK.
- Sexism is all too familiar in this department.
- They were all too ready to sell their stories to the press.
- It was over all too soon.
- 2020 October 15, Frank Pasquale, “‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI”, in The Guardian[1]:
- a robot will not be subject to all-too-human fits of anger, sadism or cruelty.
- 2011, Taylor Swift (lyrics and music), “All Too Well”:
- And you call me up again just to break me like a promise
So casually cruel in the name of being honest
I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here
'Cause I remember it all, all, all too well
Translations
editway too — see way too