Idiom Breakdown

with a vengeance

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Definition

With an intense motivation; in an extreme, intense, or violent manner.

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"With which intolerable pains if the party shriek or cry out, they roar out as loud to him to confess the truth, or else he shall come down with a vengeance."
"Yes, egad, they are tenacious of reputation with a vengeance, for they don't choose anybody should have a character but themselves!"
"It is said, that in the first representation of the Furies of Eschylus, the horror of the spectacle was so great, that several women miscarried; which was indeed pathos with a vengeance."
"They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance."
"From the first, she is the New Woman with a vengeance, loving nothing better than a chair, whisky, cigars and a detective story."

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