with (brass) knobs on
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› If you describe something as a particular thing with knobs on, you mean it has similar qualities to that thing but they are more extreme: Disney World was like an ordinary amusement park with knobs on.Informal words for goodGood, better and bestQuite good, or not very good
(Definition of with (brass) knobs on from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- A-OK adjective
- banging adjective
- be the bee's knees idiom
- be the business idiom
- bodacious adjective
- champion adjective, exclamation
- juicy adjective (GOOD)
- knock spots off sth idiom
- magic exclamation
- mega adjective
- neat adjective (GOOD)
- out of sight idiom
- plum adjective (GOOD)
- shit hot adjective
- smashing adjective
- some determiner (EXCELLENT)
- splendiferous adjective
- steal the show/scene idiom
- swell adjective
- swell adverb
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