12 English expressions with ALL all talk all nighter all out all along ...

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with lucy today i’m going to be giving

you 12 phrases using the word all but

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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

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

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I love it for example the chiona

gin when I first Halloween parties I go

all out

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