By-all-accounts
Also, according to all accounts. From all reports available, from what everyone is saying. For example, By all accounts the party was a great success, or They spent a fortune on their cruise, according to all accounts. These phrases rely on account in the sense of “a particular report or description of some event.” [ Late 1700s ]
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a way of doing, being done, or happening; mode of action, occurrence, etc.: I don’t like the manner in which he complained. manners. the prevailing customs, ways of living, and habits of a people, class, period, etc.; mores: The novels of Jane Austen are concerned with the manners of her time. ways of behaving with […]
- By-all-means
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end: The telephone is a means of communication. There are several means of solving the problem. means. available resources, especially money: They lived beyond their means. considerable financial resources; riches: a man of means. something that is […]
- Odds
the probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else: The odds are that it will rain today. the ratio of probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else. this ratio used as the basis of a bet; the ratio […]
- By-and-by
the future: to meet in the sweet by-and-by. Historical Examples My Friend Prospero Henry Harland Ester Ried Yet Speaking Isabella Alden The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12) Edmund Burke Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) Samuel Richardson Jupiter Lights Constance Fenimore Woolson Little Dorrit Charles Dickens Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume […]
- By-any-stretch
Beyond ordinary limits, especially of the imagination. For example, She could not, by any stretch of the imagination, be considered a great actress. The phrase sometimes is put in the negative, by no stretch, as in By no stretch can that work be called an opera. [ Late 1700s ]