Meaning of seven shades | Babel Free

Definitions

A complete range; a whole lot; used with of and a noun or occasionally an adjective.

plural, plural-only, slang

Examples

“I'd have to be seven shades of stupid not to catch their drift.”

“You can make that garbage predict anything you want, and that's exactly what those cretins have been doing for centuries—scaring seven shades of shit out of each other on the basis of the writings of a demented second-century surrealist.”

“Get out there in the mud and allow your dearest friends to shoot seven shades of crap out of you.”

“[…] she had hunted out a wide selection of articles about Michael Andreas and the companies he owned. She had also included old payroll records. 'Christ,' Jonah had said. 'Police information, and now this? It must be seven shades of illegal. […]”

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