English Explanatory Dictionary

all the world and his wife

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Everybody imaginable.

Word forms

all the world and his wife

Etymology

From Polite Conversation by Jonathan Swift, 1731.

Related words

everybody and his brother
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