as it gets

English

Adverb

as it gets (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) As it is possible to be.
    Synonym: as they come
    • 2007 September 21, Nina Ubaldi, “Lose the hype and formals can be fun”, in The Sydney Morning Herald‎[1], archived from the original on 6 January 2026:
      The formal is about 95 per cent hype and hysteria, and about 5 per cent actual formal, and the pre-formal gathering of parents and kids is about as hypey and hysterical as it gets.
    • 2009 May 19, Dennis Overbye, “As Tasks at Hubble End, No Tears, but It Was Close”, in The New York Times‎[2], archived from the original on 26 November 2022:
      There is no crying in space, but Monday was perhaps as close as it gets to a blubberfest in space helmets.
    • 2013 March 11, Adam Markovitz, “Matt Damon on (maybe) returning to ‘Bourne’ and playing Liberace’s lover”, in CNN‎[3], archived from the original on 13 August 2022:
      When HBO airs “Behind the Candelabra” on May 26, the world will get to see Matt Damon play Liberace’s drug-addled, surgically enhanced lover – a role about as far from Jason Bourne as it gets.
    • 2014, Petro Poroshenko, Address to the Joint Session of the United States Congress:
      Yet, the more real this independence became – the higher grew its cost.Today that cost is as high as it gets.
    • 2025 January 23, Donald Trump, Remarks at the World Economic Forum:
      So, we’re going to have the lowest — just about the lowest rate. It will be — the 21 is on the low side worldwide; the 15 is about as low as it gets, and by far the lowest of a large country — a large, you know, rich, powerful country — by far, not even a contest.
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