gung-ho

Modifying Another Word

• so: If George W is so gung-ho on removing Saddam Hussein from power why didn't he focus on it a year ago?
• all: Avon, for once, is all gung-ho about it; he wants it over.
• surprisingly: With 2005 sales of £ 40m he's not surprisingly gung-ho about business too.
• particularly: The information is solid, the presentation uninspired ( as in " written by a particularly gung-ho individual!

Modifies a noun

• attitude: UK lenders are already warning about the gung-ho attitude among young people toward debt.
• approach: A gung-ho approach of blasting through a long patch of bad mud at speed seldom works for bigger bikes.
• heroics: It is a book about extreme sport, fear and survival - but without the gung-ho heroics of mountaineering writers.
• style: Their two tries summed up a year that has seen their traditional gung-ho style traded in for a direct approach.
• type: A bit of a gung-ho type, Harry is a natural leader.
• mentality: The explosive growth in risk trading was the result of risk aversion rather than, as the documentary suggests, a gung-ho mentality.

Used with adjective complement

• go: So you're kind of going gung-ho for the girl.
• sound: If that sounds typically gung-ho, then consider Pearl Harbor.