all things to all people

all things to all people
everything that every person wants.

The baseball museum is all things to all people, which means that both old and young can enjoy this visual history of the game.

Usage notes: often as a negative:

A political party cannot be all things to all people.


New idioms dictionary. 2014.

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  • all things to all people — satisfy everyone, live up to    Be yourself. Stop trying to be all things to all people …   English idioms

  • of all people — more than anyone else. You, of all people, should understand the importance of historical analysis. Usage notes: also used to emphasize that the person named is surprising: I guess the weirdest version of that song I ve ever heard is by Frank… …   New idioms dictionary

  • all — all1 W1S1 [o:l US o:l] determiner, predeterminer, pron 1.) the whole of an amount, thing, or type of thing ▪ Have you done all your homework? all your life/all day/all year etc (=during the whole of your life, a day, a year etc) ▪ He had worked… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • all — all1 W1S1 [o:l US o:l] determiner, predeterminer, pron 1.) the whole of an amount, thing, or type of thing ▪ Have you done all your homework? all your life/all day/all year etc (=during the whole of your life, a day, a year etc) ▪ He had worked… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • people — peo|ple1 [ pipl ] noun *** ▸ 1 plural of person ▸ 2 ordinary people ▸ 3 members of a nation ▸ 4 lawyers ▸ 5 for addressing people ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) the plural of person: Thousands of people marched in protest. The accident left three people dead… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • People associated with Anne Frank — Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank (12 June 1929–early March 1945) was a Jewish girl who, along with her family and four other people, hid in rooms at the back of her father s Amsterdam company during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Helped by… …   Wikipedia

  • all — [[t]ɔ͟ːl[/t]] ♦ 1) PREDET: PREDET det pl n/n uncount You use all to indicate that you are referring to the whole of a particular group or thing or to everyone or everything of a particular kind. He felt betrayed by his mother, and this anger… …   English dictionary

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