单词 | all the |
释义 | Example sentences from the Web for all the
all theEven, more so, as in Painting the room white will make it all the lighter, or They liked her all the better for not pretending, or You don't care for dessert? Good, all the more for us. Used to underscore a comparison, this idiom was used by Shakespeare in As You Like It (1:2): “All the better; we shall be the more marketable.” [Late 1500s] For a synonym, see so much the. The entire amount of, as in These cousins were all the family he had. In this usage all the is short for all of the. [Ninth century a.d.] Words nearby all theall talk (and no action), all-terrain bike, all-terrain vehicle, all that, All that glitters is not gold, all the, all the best, all the better, All the King's Men, all the rage, all there The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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