12 اصطلاح انگلیسی با استفاده از All

12 English expressions with ALL

Hello everyone and welcome back to English with Lucy.

Today i’m going to be giving you 12 phrases using the word, all.

Number one the be-all and end-all. The be-all and end-all, is the ultimate aim the perfect specimen of something or someone. For example, if I say Cameron Diaz is the be-all and end-all and basically saying that I think she is perfect in every way.

Number two to be all for something, or to be all for doing something. So, to be all for something is to say that you are a hundred percent supportive of something. But, you are insinuating that others might not agree. There might be practical difficulties or other people might be very anti whatever you’re trying to say. For example, I am all for banning petrol and making everybody use wind power on their cars. So, if you’re all for something you strongly believe it should be done. You agree with it. I am all for you subscribing to my channel. I said it what can I do.

Number three from all walks of life. Normally you’d hear people from all walks of life. If I say there are people from all walks of life I’m saying there are people from all levels of society. They all have different jobs. They all have different salaries. They all have different morals. for example, the gym I go to, has people from all walks of life. there are members who are plumbers, doctors. I can’t think of any other walks of life teachers. Maybe some royalty who knows as light as making me sneeze.

Number four, all along. all along. we say it all together all along it means from the beginning. If I’ve known something all along, I’ve known it from the beginning. For example, she’d been planning to leave him all along. She’d been planning to leave him from the very beginning.

Number five, all the rage. If something is all the rage, it’s very, very popular. Very fashionable. So, I could say, do you remember when thin eyebrows were all the rage? So, maybe when we’re 80 years old. We might say, oh do you remember when really thick eyebrows were all the rage as we sit there with shaved eyebrows. I don’t know that’s a random example. But, all the rage.

The next one a free-for-all. a free-for-all. Is when loads of different groups of people at all trying to get something for themselves and there are no real ways of controlling it. It’s a chaotic situation. For example Black Friday in America is a free-for-all. There are people going in grabbing TVs, fighting, brawling. It’s a free-for-all. If you’re a shop owner a free-for-all isn’t what you want.

Number seven to go all out. If you go all out you put all of your energy and enthusiasm into something. So, for example, when I host Halloween parties I go all out the blood has walls on it. The walls have blood on it. there are skeletons everywhere I go all out.

Number eight to be all talk. This is actually a short version of the full phrase to be all talk and no action. But, we often just say to be all talk. If somebody’s all talk. It means they always talk about doing something. But, they never actually do it. Maybe a particularly flaky friend, I think is somebody who always quits at the last minute and lets you down. A very flaky friend tells me they’re going to come and help me out before a party. I might think to myself, oh, she’s all talk she’s never going to actually do it.

Number nine to pull out all of the stops. Or all the stops. This means you use all of the resources or force at your disposal. For example the police pulled out all the stops to find the criminal. They used every resource, all of their money, they would stop at nothing to find that criminal. I wish that were the case for the person who stole my dad’s van the other day. However, no stops. Were pulled out by the police not a single one anyway.

Number 10, all in all. This is one my fiance likes to say a lot. I’ve just realised that I think it’s a habit. but anyway, all in all means on the whole in general. For example, all in all it’s been a good year in general. It’s been a good year, there have been some bad moments. but there have been way more good moments. So, in general it’s good.

number 11, something I did a lot at university to pull an all-nighter. To pull an all-nighter, is to stay up all night. Normally working or studying. For example, I pulled an all-nighter writing this essay and I still got a rubbish grade.

And the last one number 12 and know-it-all. And the know-it-all is somebody who believes. Believes is an important word. Here believes they know everything. You know those people that just they have an answer for everything and if they’re wrong they don’t accept it. I know quite a few no tools or should I say I did know quite a few. Because, I’ve cut them out of my life.

Whoo, okay all right. That’s it for today’s lesson. I hope you liked it. I hope you learned something.