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every inch

adv

Definitions

  1. Totally, completely.

    • Wigan looked every inch a side languishing in the relegation zone and there was never any indication they would arrest a run that had seen them lose all of their previous eight Premier League matches at Arsenal.
    • It hopes for an order for the Bakerloo Line, where trains dating from 1972 still ply the route, looking every inch their 50 years.

  2. The whole (of something).

    • He knows every inch of the road.
    • The latter two required a long track walk from Whitechapel (after services ended and power was switched off), alongside TfL staff who know every inch of this historic stretch of line.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for every inch. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA