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"All the rage"

"All the rage"

Date: May 30 2007

Topic: Idioms and Slang

Author: madridmatt

Lesson

(adj.) All the rage means fashionable. 

 

If something is all the rage, it's very fashionable at the moment. It's in style. Like all idioms, it's not useful to try to define the actual meaning of the words. Rage, for example, means anger. Anger has nothing to do with this phrase. 

In Spain, mullets are all the rage. 

Lily Allen is all the rage in the UK.

In the 1960s, the Beatles were all the rage.

Smart Cars are all the rage in large cities.

David Beckham is all the rage in Los Angeles.

 

Vocabulary

In style: fashionable, all the rage.  

Has nothing to do with:  Has nothing in common with. 

Mullets: A type of haircut that's short on the top and sides, but long in the back. See photo. 

 

 

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Shah Xeb

Pakistan

It’s a cool website ever I have visited I am also rage

05:36 AM Nov 15 2007 |

nourdanv

Syrian Arab Republic

what's the meaning of all the rage?

 

06:28 AM Nov 04 2007 |

maggiemm902

China

English is all the rage all over the world nowadays cos it is a kind of language which is used widely as an international language.

09:26 AM Oct 15 2007 |

poopypens

poopypens

Russian Federation

i am all the rage!

08:47 PM Oct 07 2007 |

pp77721

pp77721

China

i thihk jay is all the rage in china , and at the moment english is all the rage to me

01:58 PM Oct 05 2007 |

sebi

India

how are you

Surprised

05:02 PM Oct 04 2007 |

hans jürgen

Sweden

hey,

in my opinion it's the best englishbaby websites!

Laughing

bye

hansi

06:03 PM Jun 03 2007 |

nickey228

nickey228

China

C00L

this englishbaby website is all the rage in my schoolCool

05:20 PM May 30 2007 |

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