all the rage
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Meaning · English
Very popular or fashionable at a particular time
Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt
Rất phổ biến hoặc thời thượng vào một thời điểm nhất định
Machine-translated — suggest a fix
Literally: all the rage
Where it’s used:
Used
Widespread English
Examples
Haines obviously finds the idea of one machine for all, possibly based on Taligent, conceptually attractive, but says he has not heard anything in IBM about a merging.
TENBY was all the rage yesterday for the Derby down to 8 - 1.
British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Listed in Wiktionary’s “English idioms” category (retrieved 2026-07-29); definition pending editorial review. Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-07-30; pending editor spot-check.
Common questions
What does “all the rage” mean?
Very popular or fashionable at a particular time Literally: all the rage
Is “all the rage” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.