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词汇 all-things-to-all-people
释义

all things to all people


idiom
(UK alsoall things to all men)
If you try to be all things to all people, you try to do things that will please everyone.使人人满意;八面玲珑
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing pleasure
agreeable
agreeableness
agreeably
attractive
attractively
distraction
diverting
divertingly
do someone the world of goodidiom
do someone's heart goodidiom
indulgent
indulgently
jovial
jovially
keep on the right side of someoneidiom
sensuously
serendipitous
sweeten
swooning
swooningly

Examples of all things to all people


all things to all people
There is little point in being allthingstoallpeople at all times.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
They try to be allthingstoallpeople.
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However, no doubt the members of that party want to be allthingstoallpeople.
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It is in danger of becoming allthingstoallpeople.
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But do not try to be allthingstoallpeople.
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They are setting themselves up as allthingstoallpeople, competing with the hardware and chemist shops in the small villages.
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It simply tries to be allthingstoallpeople.
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Can he explain that contradiction, or is he just a politician running scared of the electorate and trying to be allthingstoallpeople?
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It is important to raise those issues because in many ways the treaty is allthingstoallpeople.
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That word can mean allthingstoallpeople—one thing to one individual and something else to another person.
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It was certainly allthingstoallpeople, so anything that he said would have been both in order and in line with his policy.
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Let us not try to make it allthingstoallpeople.
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Then it can mean allthingstoallpeople.
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Federalism can mean allthingstoallpeople.
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We seem to be presented with an organisational overhaul that means allthingstoallpeople.
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