all too
idiom
: much too
—used to say that something is more than what is wanted, needed, acceptable, possible, etc.
These problems have been occurring all too often.
She knew all too well what the punishment would be.
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The maximally stupid outcome—which, by that very fact, seems all too probable—is that Trump gets bored of the whole affair and stops the air strikes after a putsch has been discovered, but before it’s succeeded.
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Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
Funding freezes, data gaps and unpaid workers Over the past two decades, the story of government shutdowns has become all too familiar.
—Kenneth M. Evans, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
Those were, frankly, all too normal to get their own bullet point in a section about this absolutely bonkers Game 7.
—Levi Weaver, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
In Satan’s Waitin’, Satan appears to Sylvester, naturally, in the form of a bulldog who’s all too happy to greet him after his latest attempt on Tweety’s life goes awry.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
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Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
Funding freezes, data gaps and unpaid workers Over the past two decades, the story of government shutdowns has become all too familiar.
—Kenneth M. Evans, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
Those were, frankly, all too normal to get their own bullet point in a section about this absolutely bonkers Game 7.
—Levi Weaver, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
In Satan’s Waitin’, Satan appears to Sylvester, naturally, in the form of a bulldog who’s all too happy to greet him after his latest attempt on Tweety’s life goes awry.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
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“All too.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all%20too. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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