词汇 | every inch a man etc |
词源 | every inch a man, etc. In every way. Every inch phrases are nothing new, having been popular ever since Shakespeare used one in King Lear (1606): Gloucester: Is’t not the king. Lear: Ay, every inch a king. |
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