a heck of a sth/sb
used for emphasis to mean "very":
It's a heck of a long way to the nearest shop from here.
mainly US also one heck of a sth/sb a surprisingly good person or thing:
20 dollars for that is a heck of a good deal.
She's one heck of a writer.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: intensifying expressions
- a load of crap, nonsense, rubbish, etc. idiom
- all the way idiom
- annoy, frighten, scare, etc. the hell out of sb idiom
- anything
- as... as anything idiom
- at least idiom
- clear
- core
- do you hear? idiom
- extreme
- hell of a idiom
- I'll be hanged if... idiom
- leastways
- like a ton of bricks idiom
- long
- more than idiom
- mortally
- out-and-out
- to hell idiom
- to the core idiom
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