to a man
prep_phrase/tuː‿ə ˈmæn/UK/tuː‿ə ˈmæn/US
Etymology
From to (“indicating a limit reached”) + a + man (“adult male human; human regardless of gender or sex”), indicating that something reaches the extent of every individual person.
Definitions
Including every person
Including every person; without exception; unanimously.
- To a man, Cyrenaica's new landlords insist they are the launchpad for a countrywide liberation, with Tripoli as the capital, not a separatist movement.
- [W]ould Iran’s players sing their national anthem, which is seen as a gesture in support of the regime? To a man, the answer was a stony-faced no.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for to a man. 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