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Bookmark or Share- Anything and everything - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeFor example, you could say "Please feel free to change anything and everything that needs revision." Alternatively you can say something like "Feel free to make any changes you deem appropriate." Side-note: I find it mildly humorous that the idiom "anything and everything" generally means neither. By clicking “Post Your Answer”, you agree ...
- “Everything is not…” - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeThis phrase is only ambiguous for logicians. The correct meaning (if you're not a logician) is "not everything is". Unfortunately for logicians, language is not always based on logic. Even Shakespeare had his characters use "all is not" in this way: All that glisters is not gold;
- idioms - Implication of "Everything is relative" - English Language ...4. Expressions like "it's all relative" or "everything is relative" are used in all kinds of sloppy ways. A schoolteacher once explained to my class that the meaning of Einstein's Theory of Relativity is "Everything is relative"; no need to understand issues like the speed of light or the Lorentz contraction, just utter a cliché and you're a ...
- "Everything's coming up X"? - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeExpressions of the form "everything's coming up X" almost certainly owe their existence to the song "Everything's Coming Up Roses" from the musical Gypsy (1959). Whether it, in turn, was influenced by the earlier expression "come out [or up] smelling like roses [or a rose]" is less clear, but it doesn't seem far-fetched to me.
- grammar - use of "everything" or "anything" in positive and negative ...Everything is not always positive in meaning, but it means everything. Anything is in arbitrary subset of everything. In the negative sense, "we can't do everything " means it's not possible to do all things, but you can still do something.
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