all the world

noun

Definition of all the world

: everybody or everything in existence especially : everybody or everything regarded as of account convinced that all the world was against him

for all the world

1 : for the sake of gaining everything : for any consideration

2 : in every respect : wholly, exactly whose posy was for all the world like cutler's poetry— Shakespeare with his father's pipe in his mouth and looking for all the world like him

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