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ONLY TOO
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To a high degree
Example:
she is all too ready to accept the job
Synonyms:
all too; only too
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Context examples:
He, who had ever boasted of being an Elliot, and whose feelings, as to connection, were only too strict to suit the unfeudal tone of the present day.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
"Your request is not exactly in the scope of the reference department, but I shall be only too pleased to assist you."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
On the one side seemed certain ruin, on the other, terrible as it seemed to take my husband’s paper, still in a matter of politics I could not understand the consequences, while in a matter of love and trust they were only too clear to me.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As it is, I'm sure I'll take off mother directly, and only too appy.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
For myself, I should take the chance only too thankfully if it were to come.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I was only too glad to get out of such a house.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Oh! my dear sir, as my mother says, our friends are only too good to us.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I caught scraps of their conversation, from which I was able only too distinctly to infer the main subject discussed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
With the policeman we both hurried down, but only to find the street full of traffic, many people coming and going, but all only too eager to get to a place of safety upon so wet a night.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My uncle’s fears as to our being blocked upon the road were only too well founded, for after we passed Reigate there was such a procession of every sort of vehicle, that I believe for the whole eight miles there was not a horse whose nose was further than a few feet from the back of the curricle or barouche in front.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
