as anything

phrase

informal

: as any person or thing

—used in the sense of "very" or "extremely" to make a statement more forceful

He was (as) calm as anything.

It was as obvious as anything that she didn't want to go.

Examples of as anything in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There’s acid all over what should be a celebratory 30th anniversary season because, apparently, no one can process trash-talking and technical fouls and the occasional fist-to-throat as anything but a cultural reckoning. — Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 2 July 2026

In the film, the villain is not the Harvard nerds who initially shun Elle, but the ex-boyfriend who never saw her as anything more than a cardboard cutout of a girl with blonde hair and big boobs. — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 1 July 2026

Rhymes for as anything

• bing
• bring
• ching
• cling
• ding
• fling
• ging
• hing
• jing
• kling
• ling
• ming