with a vengeance

Determinedly or passionately, perhaps fueled by anger. After my girlfriend dumped me, I started working out with a vengeance. We're going to have to clean with a vengeance to get the house ready in time.See also: vengeance

do something with a vengeance

Fig. to do something with vigor; to do something energetically as if one were angry. Bob is building that fence with a vengeance. Mary is really weeding her garden with a vengeance.See also: vengeance

with a vengeance

Cliché with determination and eagerness. The angry soldier attacked the enemy with a vengeance. Bill ate all his dinner and gobbled up his dessert with a vengeance.See also: vengeance

with a vengeance

With great violence or energy; also, to an extreme degree. For example, The cottage was filthy and Ruth began cleaning with a vengeance, or December has turned cold with a vengeance. This expression was first recorded in 1533. Also see with a will. See also: vengeance

with a vengeance

in a higher degree than was expected or desired; in the fullest sense.See also: vengeance

do something with a ˈvengeance

(informal) do something with great energy or force: After the holidays I need to start working with a vengeance. ♢ The rain came down with a vengeance.See also: something, vengeance

with a vengeance

1. With great violence or force.2. To an extreme degree: December has turned cold with a vengeance.See also: vengeance

with a vengeance

Forcefully, extremely hard. Vengeance in this old expression is not the same as “revenge” (see also revenge is sweet). It was already in print in 1533, in the same meaning it has today. “Be gone quickly, or my pikestaff and I will set thee away with a vengeance,” wrote George Peele (King Edward I, 1593).See also: vengeance

单词	with a vengeance
释义	with a vengeance ven·geance V0053400 (vĕn′jəns)n. Infliction of punishment in return for a wrong committed; retribution.Idiom: *with a vengeance1. With great violence or force.2. To an extreme degree: December has turned cold with a vengeance. [Middle English, from Old French, from vengier, to avenge, from Latin vindicāre; see vindicate.] with a vengeance with a vengeance Determinedly or passionately, perhaps fueled by anger. After my girlfriend dumped me, I started working out with a vengeance. We're going to have to clean with a vengeance to get the house ready in time.See also: vengeance do something with a vengeance Fig.* to do something with vigor; to do something energetically as if one were angry. Bob is building that fence with a vengeance. Mary is really weeding her garden with a vengeance.See also: vengeance with a vengeance Cliché with determination and eagerness. The angry soldier attacked the enemy with a vengeance. Bill ate all his dinner and gobbled up his dessert with a vengeance.See also: vengeance with a vengeance With great violence or energy; also, to an extreme degree. For example, The cottage was filthy and Ruth began cleaning with a vengeance, or December has turned cold with a vengeance. This expression was first recorded in 1533. Also see with a will. See also: vengeance with a vengeance in a higher degree than was expected or desired; in the fullest sense.See also: vengeance do something with a ˈvengeance (informal) do something with great energy or force: After the holidays I need to start working with a vengeance. ♢ The rain came down with a vengeance.See also: something, vengeance with a vengeance 1. With great violence or force.2. To an extreme degree: December has turned cold with a vengeance.See also: vengeance with a vengeance Forcefully, extremely hard. Vengeance in this old expression is not the same as “revenge” (see also revenge is sweet). It was already in print in 1533, in the same meaning it has today. “Be gone quickly, or my pikestaff and I will set thee away with a vengeance,” wrote George Peele (King Edward I, 1593).See also: vengeance EncyclopediaSeeVengeanceAcronymsSeeWAVThesaurusSeevengeance
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