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be kind/generous, etc. to a fault
Definition
to be extremely kind/generous, etc
She's a really sweet person and she's generous to a fault.
(Definition of be kind/generous, etc. to a fault from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Synonyms and related words:
- (and) no messing
- all the way
- as ... as anything
- be nothing less than sth
- end of
- Goodness/God/Heaven/Christ knows
- I'll be hanged if...
- if ever there was one
- mortally
- not half
- out and away
- talk about ...
- the shit out of sb/sth
- the thing is
- to your heart's content
- to hell
- to say the least
- to the nth degree
- well and truly
- with a capital A/B etc.
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Intensifying expressions
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