seven shades

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seven shades pl (plural only)

1. (slang) A complete range; a whole lot; used with of and a noun or occasionally an adjective.
   • 2008, Susan Bryant, Solitary Hearts, page 107:

     I'd have to be seven shades of stupid not to catch their drift.

   • 2008, Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy, The Gospel of the Second Coming, page 158:

     You can make that garbage predict anything you want, and that's exactly what those cretins have been doing for centuries—scaring seven shades of shit out of each other on the basis of the writings of a demented second-century surrealist.

   • 2013, Andrew O'Hagan, The Atlantic Ocean: Reports from Britain and America, page 194:

     Get out there in the mud and allow your dearest friends to shoot seven shades of crap out of you.

   • 2013, Sean Patrick, The Reviver, page 221:

     […] she had hunted out a wide selection of articles about Michael Andreas and the companies he owned. She had also included old payroll records. 'Christ,' Jonah had said. 'Police information, and now this? It must be seven shades of illegal. […]

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