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in a big way

  1. (idiomatic) To a great extent, emphatically, or with great passion.
    • 1956, US Congress Senate Committee on the Judiciary, "Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States", U.S. Government Printing Office.
      "We are moving up into the northwest in a big way next year so maybe I'll have a chance to come and visit you yet."
    • 1998, Cal Ripken Jr, Mike Bryan, The Only Way I Know: With Highlights from the 1997 Season:
      "Fred got into Pumping Iron in a big way."
    • 2008, Henry Abraham, How to Write a Book in 90 Days in God's Way:
      "Noah's commitment paid off in a big way when only he, his wife and sons and his son's wives were saved from the flood that destroyed the entire earth [...]"

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