| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| is old legal language, emphasizing the all-inclusiveness of the thing to which it is applied. Its a cliché, but it also has a venerable quality and is Standard. Use it for serious emphasis, however, not for trivial hyperbole. | 1 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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