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FOR ALL THE WORLD
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Under any circumstances
Example:
she wouldn't give up her pets for love or money
Synonyms:
for all the world; for any price; for anything; for love or money
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Context examples:
For all the world like a woman wringing her hands, he raised his clenched fists and groaned.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I should not have dwelt so long upon this particular, if it had not been a point wherein the reputation of a great lady is so nearly concerned, to say nothing of my own; though I then had the honour to be a nardac, which the treasurer himself is not; for all the world knows, that he is only a glumglum, a title inferior by one degree, as that of a marquis is to a duke in England; yet I allow he preceded me in right of his post.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He would not speak another word to him, meet him where he might, for all the world!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
“I assure you,” said she, “I would not stand up without your dear sister for all the world; for if I did we should certainly be separated the whole evening.”
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
There was sand in our eyes, sand in our teeth, sand in our suppers, sand dancing in the spring at the bottom of the kettle, for all the world like porridge beginning to boil.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
They were all about us, thicker than I had ever seen them before, in twos and threes and bunches, stretched full length on the surface and sleeping for all the world like so many lazy young dogs.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I would not disappoint the little angel for all the world: and if you want me at the card-table now, I am resolved to finish the basket after supper.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I tell you, Mr. Morland, she cried, I would not do such a thing for all the world.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world, but lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiosity, for from these dozen words I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended upon me alone.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It has given me such an abhorrence of annuities, that I am sure I would not pin myself down to the payment of one for all the world.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
