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for all the world en · ADP

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  1. (idiomatic) Entirely, to all appearances.
    • […] Phil offering and giving advice sagely and gravely, for all the world as though he had been old enough to be this young woman's father […] 1885, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Lady Lovelace:
    • […] the babies looking for all the world as though they had stepped out of pictures by Gian Bellini or by Fra Bartolommeo, that greatest of baby painters. 1917 September 5, Frank Hunter Potter, “Prevention First”, in Alfred Emanuel Smith, editor, New Outlook, page 17:
    • […] not a ha'porth of him left but a goodish piece of his skin, just for all the world like a hedgehog's, and a piece o' old iron furbished up. 1861, Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth: