英和和英

形容詞

complete and utter (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Used to intensify; absolute; total.

   That movie was complete and utter trash. Do not watch it!

   • 1803, Great Britain. Parliament, William Cobbett, Thomas Curson Hansard, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates‎, page 710:

     The office had been established in connection with the Act passed by Lord Cairns, which it was well known was a complete and utter failure.

   • 1896, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad‎, volume 7, page 350:

     I only knew that I had given her my confidence, that complete and utter confidence which neither wisdom nor power alone, can command.

   • 2017, Michael Wise, On the Toss of a Coin‎, page 13:

     Then a period of complete and utter nothingness - not a thought, not a vision, not a sound, nothing.