everybody and their dog
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Pronoun
- (idiomatic) A large number of people; most people.
- 1894, "Reminiscences", The Station Agent, February 1894:
- Everybody and their dog in that town had the "fever and ague," and they walked about like ghosts.
- 1894, "Reminiscences", The Station Agent, February 1894:
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- See also Thesaurus:everybody.
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