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anybody who is anybody en · NOUN
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(idiomatic, uncountable) Any person who is well-known or important, especially one who has prominent social standing.
Gwendolen: Personally I cannot understand how anybody manages to exist in the country, if anybody who is anybody does. The country always bores me to death.
1895, Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest […] , [Act II]:Still, anybody who is anybody managed to wrangle an invitation to the event. That included Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife Laureen, Governor General Michaélle Jean, Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter and a bevy of soggy dignitaries.
2010 June 29, Christopher Hume, “On her 22nd visit to Canada, Her Majesty stops the rain”, in The Star, Canada, retrieved 13 Jun 2017:Vogue magazine, meanwhile, is holding a big cocktail party on Tuesday with photographers, models, designers and anybody who is anybody in Milan.
1992 March 10, Woody Hochswender, “Patterns”, in New York Times, retrieved 13 Jun 2017:
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