something fierce
idiom
US, informal
: very badly or very much
I miss her something fierce.
I need a vacation something fierce.
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Owens’s up-close-and-personal encounters with those twisters required the force of something fierce to make the scenes look authentic.
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Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
There’s something fierce in her nature.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 7 Apr. 2023
My dad at times snores something fierce.
—Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2022
Valente looked so dirty and bedraggled, leaves and twigs feathered in his hair and something fierce and sad in his look.
—Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
Every now and then, the inbox would get an email from [email protected] with a song attached, something fierce or something tender, but always something from the heart.
—Holly Gleason, cleveland, 17 Mar. 2021
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Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
There’s something fierce in her nature.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 7 Apr. 2023
My dad at times snores something fierce.
—Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2022
Valente looked so dirty and bedraggled, leaves and twigs feathered in his hair and something fierce and sad in his look.
—Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
Every now and then, the inbox would get an email from [email protected] with a song attached, something fierce or something tender, but always something from the heart.
—Holly Gleason, cleveland, 17 Mar. 2021
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“Something fierce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/something%20fierce. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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