all the thing

[all the thing] or [all the rage], [the in thing] {n. phr.}

The fashionable or popular thing to do, the fashionable or most popular artist or form of art at a given time.

* /After "The Graduate" Dustin Hoffman was all the rage in the movies./

* /It was all the thing in the late sixties to smoke pot and demonstrate against the war in Vietnam./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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