all too

English

Alternative forms

• all to (misspelling)

Adverb

all too (not comparable)

1. Very, extremely; thoroughly but lamentably; excessively.

   Coordinate terms: nice and; good and

   Teenage pregnancies are all too common in the UK.

   Sexism is all too familiar in this department.

   They were all too ready to sell their stories to the press.

   It was over all too soon.

   • 2020 October 15, Frank Pasquale, “‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI”, in The Guardian‎:

     a robot will not be subject to all-too-human fits of anger, sadism or cruelty.

   • 2011, Taylor Swift, “All Too Well”:

     And you call me up again just to break me like a promise
     So casually cruel in the name of being honest
     I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here
     'Cause I remember it all, all, all too well

Translations

way too — see way too