of all things
idiom
—used to emphasize that the thing one is referring to is the thing one would least expect
The coach is making the entire football team take, of all things, ballet classes.
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His lucrative health and fitness empire collapsed after the promoter of all things natural was revealed to be on steroids and human growth hormone.
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 14 May 2025
The exhibit, featuring depictions of all things edible, showcases the work of 15 artists who study at La Jolla’s Athenaeum Music & Arts Library under artist and teacher Jeff Yeomans.
—La Jolla Light, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2025
To leave some of the other things behind and to be an instrument, a promoter of all things good for the common good.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
Beyond a love of all things makeup, Hamlin's learned that beauty comes from confidence in oneself.
—Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 7 May 2025
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 14 May 2025
The exhibit, featuring depictions of all things edible, showcases the work of 15 artists who study at La Jolla’s Athenaeum Music & Arts Library under artist and teacher Jeff Yeomans.
—La Jolla Light, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2025
To leave some of the other things behind and to be an instrument, a promoter of all things good for the common good.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
Beyond a love of all things makeup, Hamlin's learned that beauty comes from confidence in oneself.
—Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 7 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for of all things
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“Of all things.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/of%20all%20things. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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