Be-all and end-all, the
the most important element or purpose, as in buying a house became the be-all and end-all for the newlyweds. shakespeare used this idiom in macbeth (1:6), where macbeth muses that “this blow might be the be-all and the end-all” for his replacing duncan as king. [ late 1500s ]
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