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单词 one-size-fits-all
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one-size-fits-all
i. one-size-fits-all: (in advertising, esp. of an item of clothing) designed to fit people of all sizes. Also figurative (of things, ideas, methods, etc., chiefly with negative connotation) designed to apply to or suit everyone, regardless of individual differences.
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1905 Inland Printer June 436 (advt.) One Size Fits All Devices... Powerful Locking Devices in great variety, for all Composing and Pressroom needs.
1937 Chicago Tribune 4 June 27/2 (caption) The new one-size-fits-all bathing suits are worn by Alice La Mont (the press agent says rotund) film comedienne, and Dorothea Kant, petite film actress.
1959 Vogue 1 Nov. 94/1 (advt.) The original ‘one-size-fits-all’ terry after-bath robe.
1970 Los Angeles Times 1 Mar. e12/4 Most clergymen insist on a one-size-fits-all service, but there are some who will even help supply ideas if you're looking for something individual.
1976 U.S. News & World Rep. (Nexis) 16 Feb. 74 Wearing ‘one size fits all’ socks or panty hose can cause corns, blisters or even more serious foot problems.
1981 C. L. Beale in S. M. Mazie & D. L. Brown Nonmetropolitan Amer. in Transition 54 Procrustean policy beds, of the one-size-fits-all variety, are all too common in public affairs.
1995 90 Minutes 15 Apr. 31/2 The ever-widening Gazza struggled to fit in to the ‘one-size-fits-all’ regulation shirt of the time.
1998 Texas Alcalde (Univ. Texas) Sept. 19 Traditional Texan baseball cap... Adjustable back strap. One size fits all. 27.95.
2008 M. Grey et al. Indigenous Social Work (2010) p. xxvi A one size fits all approach that is paradoxical in a profession which values and extols diversity.
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