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Definition

An intensifier, chiefly used with questions.

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In Context

  • "At the time, however, I was only peevish, wondering what in thunder went on, for I had been in the place long enough to know that, next to the matron, the clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital."
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Related Idioms

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in heaven's name

An intensifier, chiefly used with questions.

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in the green tree … in the dry

In a better situation as against a worse one; used chiefly in rhetoric…

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in the wake of

Following.

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in the red

Having net losses; in debt.

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in the buff

Nude.

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in the nick of time

At the last possible moment; at the last minute.
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