单词 | the be-all and the end-all |
释义 | > as lemmasthe be-all and the end-all That which ‘ends all’ (see quot. 1876). Now only dialect except in Shakespearean phrase, the be-all and the end-all. (See be-all n.) ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 5 That but this blow Might be the be all, and the end all . View more context for this quotation 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. (E.D.S.) (at cited word) End all, more freely used than customarily, and with a wider interpretation in the sense of an act of completion. Also a finishing stroke. 1883 G. Howell in Contemp. Rev. Sept. 345 The latter aim was the be-all and end-all almost of those industrial combinations. < as lemmas |
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