| 单词 | everybody and his wife |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseverybody and his (also their, etc.) wife (also brother, cousin, dog, etc.) P2. colloquial. everybody and his (also their, etc.) wife (also brother, cousin, dog, etc.): (with singular or plural agreement) a large and diverse group of people; absolutely everyone. Cf. everyone and his wife at everyone pron. Phrases 2. ΚΠ 1823 London Mag. Apr. 383/2 Shopkeepers, great and small; artisans, high and low; farmers, ploughmen, shepherds, and fishermen—everybody, and his wife and children too. 1876 Titusville (Pa.) Morning Herald 9 May Everybody and their cousins are expected to be here. 1965 M. Marmorstein Will Real Jesus Christ please stand Up? (rev. ed.) 12 Everybody and his uncle has an opinion of what He should be like. 1990 M8 Dec. 54/2 Everybody and their dog has been predicting that when the Mondays finally got round to making the follow up to Bummed, it would knock ten bells out of the competition. 2015 S. Fearon & J. Powell Dead Companies Walking iii. 78 The dotcom boom, when everybody and their brother was..predicting the end of brick-and-mortar retail. < as lemmas |
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