be every inch (something)

to be a particular kind of person in every way.

He looked every inch the slick, city businessman.

• the common touch
• the conventional wisdom
• the corridors of power
• the cream of the crop
• the curtain comes down on
• the curtain comes down on something
• the curtain falls
• the curtain falls on
• the curtain falls on something
• the cut and thrust of
• the cut and thrust of something
• the darkest hour is just before the dawn.
• the day of reckoning
• the dead hand of
• the dead hand of something
• the death knell
• the demon drink
• the devil finds work for idle hands.
• the devil take the hindmost
• the dice are loaded against
• the dice are loaded against someone
• the die is cast
• the dog days
• the done thing
• the dreaded lurgy