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so
informal
1. Used as an intensifier. I am so ready to be done with my exams! Gas has gotten so expensive in the last few years!
2. Used to emphasize that something is true (or not), especially when someone has claimed the opposite. A: "I'm thinking of moving to the countryside." B: "Yeah, right. You're so not leaving the city. You'd die of boredom out there! A: "Mom! Timmy didn't clean up his room!" B: "I did so! Don't tell lies, Billy!"
3. Used rhetorically to express that one is indifferent to or finds no importance in what is being discussed. A: "You've got a lot of great qualities—any woman would be mad not to think you're a catch!" B: "So? Sarah was the only girl for me, and now she's gone forever." So didn't finish high school—big deal! Plenty of people drop out and go on to have great lives.
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so (what)
Inf. Why does that matter? (Can be considered rude.) Bob: Your attitude always seems to lack sincerity. Mary: So what? John: Your car sure is dusty. Sue: So?
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so
mod. very. (An intensifier that can appear before prepositional phrases and other selected adjectives that typically are not intensified.) I was so toasted that I said, “I’m so out of here!”
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- (are) you leaving so soon?
- (I) told you (so)
- (I'm) (a)fraid so
- (I'm) (so) glad to hear it/that
- (I'm) (so) glad you could come
- (I'm) (so) glad you could drop by
- (I'm/We're) (so) glad you could stop by
- (in) so far as
- (one) (has) never had it so good
- (one) should be so lucky
- (one) should live so long
- (so) sue me
- (someone) thinks (they) are so smart
- (something) is (so) you
- able to take just so much
- able to take only so much
- act high and mighty
- afraid so
- and so
- and so forth
- and so on
- and so on and so forth
- as . . . as
- as a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly
- as a man sows, so shall he reap
- as above, so below
- as far as
- as far as (someone or something) is concerned
- as far as anyone knows
- as far as I can see
- as far as is concerned
- as far as possible
- as far as that goes
- as it just so happens
- as it so happens
- as long as
- as much as
- as the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined
- as you make your bed, so must you lie in it
- as you make your bed, so must you lie on it
- as you make your bed, so you must lie in it
- as you make your bed, so you must lie on it
- As you sow, so shall you reap
- as/so far as it goes
- as/so far as...
- as/so long as
- at least
- at least so many
- be not so bad
- be not so much (something) as (something else)
- be not so much something as something
- be on (one's) say-so
- be on the say-so of (someone)
- be shook up
- be so
- be so bold
- be so bold as to (do something)
- be so bold as to do
- be so hungry (that) (one) could eat a horse
- be so much/many (something)
- be so much/many something
- be so-so
- be too
- be/make so bold
- CF
- CF The CF is from the so-called NATO Phonetic Alphabet.
- Charlie Foxtrot
- devil is not so black as he is painted
- do so
- do too
- even so
- ever so
- ever so/ever such...
- every now and then
- every so often
- extra
- for (so) long
- go as far as (doing something)
- go as far as to (do something)
- go as/so far as to do something
- go so far as (doing something)
- go so far as to
- go so far as to (do something)
- go so far as to say
- go so far as to say (something)
- have it (so) good
- have so
- have too
- hope so
- how come
- how so
- How so?
- I am so sure!
- I believe so
- I don't think so
- I expect so
- I guess
- I guess not
- I guess so
- I hope so
- I should hope not
- I should hope so
- I should hope so/not
- I should think not
- I should think so
- I should think so/not
- I suppose (so)
- I suppose so
- I suspect so
- I think so
- I told you so
- I would hope so
- if I do say so myself
- if so
- if you don't mind me saying (so)
- if you don't mind me/my saying so...
- if you don't mind my saying (so)
- I'm so sure
- in so far as
- in so many words
- in so/as many words
- in the not-so-distant future
- insomuch as
- into detail(s)
- is that a fact?
- is that so
- Is that so?
- isn't it so (something)
- isn't that so
- it (just) so happens (that)
- it so happens that...
- it was ever so
- I've heard so much about you
- just as
- just so
- L7
- land so poor it wouldn't even raise a fuss
- land so poor you couldn't raise a fuss on it
- late in the game
- Leaving so soon?
- like so
- make bold
- make so bold (as to do something)
- more so
- need (something) so bad (that) (one) can taste it
- never had it so good
- never had it so good, one
- no pressure
- Not bad
- not so bad
- not so dusty
- not so fast
- not so hot
- not so hot at (something)
- not so much
- not so much as (do something)
- not so/too hot
- not too bad
- not too hot
- nothing is given so freely as advice
- nothing is so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse
- nothing so bad but (it) might have been worse
- Nothing so bad but might have been worse
- Now you tell me!
- on (one's) say-so
- on one's say-so
- on say-so
- on somebody's say-so
- on the say-so of (someone)
- only do so much
- or so
- quite so
- rightly so
- say it ain't so
- Say it ain't so, Joe
- Say it ain't so, Joe!
- say-so
- shook up
- sink so low
- so
- so (something) as (something)
- so (something) it isn't true
- so as to
- so as to do something
- so bad (that) (one) can taste it
- so bad one can taste it
- so bad, stupid, etc. it isn't true
- so be it
- so clean (that) (one) could eat off the floor(s)
- so clean you could eat off the floor
- so close (and) yet so far
- so cold (that) you could hang meat (in it/there)
- so cold you could hang meat
- so crazy (that) it just might work
- so crazy (that) it might actually work
- so crazy (that) it might just work
- so do I
- so does (one)
- so far
- so far as
- so far as (one) knows
- so far as (someone or something) is concerned
- so far as possible
- so far so good
- so far, so good
- so gross
- So gross!
- so help me
- so help me (God)
- so help you (God)
- so hungry (that) I could eat a horse
- so I see
- so I see!
- so is life
- so it goes
- so last year
- so long
- so long as
- so long, and thanks for all the fish
- so mad (that) (one) could scream
- so mad I could scream
- so many
- so many countries, so many customs
- so mote it be
- so much
- so much for
- so much for (someone or something)
- so much for sb/sth
- so much for that
- so much so
- so much so that
- so much the
- so much the better
- so much the better/worse
- so much the worse
- so much the worse (for someone or something)
- so much the worse for
- so much/many
- so near (and) yet so far
- so near and yet so far
- so quiet you could have heard a pin drop
- so quiet you could hear a pin drop
- so soon
- so still you could have heard a pin drop
- so still you could hear a pin drop
- so suck
- so that
- so the story goes
- so the story goes...
- so there
- so there!
- so to speak
- so what
- So what if I do?
- So what?
- so yesterday
- so, sue me
- So, sue me!
- so-and-so
- so-called
- so's your old lady
- so's your old man
- So's your old man!
- so-so
- square
- stoop so low
- take it
- take on
- thank you so much
- Thank you very much
- thanks so much
- that is sweet of (someone)
- that's so funny I forgot to laugh
- That's so suck!
- the devil is not so black as he is painted
- the not-so-distant future
- the not-so-distant past
- the pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last
- there are loose ends
- there are loose threads
- there's none so blind as those that will not see
- there's none so blind as those who will not see
- there's none so deaf as those that will not hear
- there's none so deaf as those who will not hear
- there's nowt so queer as folk
- thus and so
- too bad, so sad
- very much so
- want (something) so bad (that) (one) can taste it
- What makes you say so?
- What makes you think so?
- Why buy a cow when milk is (so) cheap?
- Why buy a cow when you can get milk for free?
- without (so much as) a by-your-leave
- without so much as
- without so much as (doing) (something)
- without so much as doing
- without so much as something/as doing something
- work it so (that) (something is the case)
- work things so (that) (something is the case)
- Would you be so good as to (do something)?
- Would you be so kind as to (do something)?
- wound tight
- You don't say
- you so-and-so
- You think you're so smart!