the whole wide world

the whole wide world

1. The entire vastness of planet Earth. There's nowhere in the whole wide world I'd rather be than right here beside you. Why would you want to stay in this little nothing of a town? The whole wide world is out there waiting for you to explore!
2. A great deal of places or locations. I thought for the longest time that I would need to search the whole wide world for my one true love. My plan is to travel the whole wide world, teaching English to earn a living as I go.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

whole wide world

Fig. everywhere; everywhere and everything. It's the best in the whole wide world. I've searched the whole wide world for just the right hat.
See also: whole, wide, world
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

the whole wide world

n. everywhere; everywhere and everything. I’ve searched the whole wide world for just the right hat.
See also: whole, wide, world
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • whole wide world
  • beside (oneself)
  • beside oneself
  • beside yourself
  • beside oneself, to be
  • cushion
  • beside the cushion
  • set beside
  • dress
  • be beside (oneself)
References in classic literature
There was such a sense of home in the thought, that though her own eyes overflowed she would not have obliterated the recollection of it, either from her own mind or from his, for the wealth of the whole wide world.
But, partly that she dreaded the secret or undisguised interference of old Roger Chillingworth, and partly that her conscious heart imparted suspicion where none could have been felt, and partly that both the minister and she would need the whole wide world to breathe in, while they talked together -- for all these reasons Hester never thought of meeting him in any narrower privacy than beneath the open sky.
"Nay," said Alleyne, "I would gladly come with ye to France or where else ye will, just to list to your talk, and because ye are the only two friends that I have in the whole wide world outside of the cloisters; but, indeed, it may not be, for my duty is towards my brother, seeing that father and mother are dead, and he my elder.
What in the whole wide world can be the connection between this dead painting man and the affair at Birlstone?"
You and Aunt Rose are the best people in the whole wide world. How can I ever thank you?"
Out of his puniness and fright he challenged and menaced the whole wide world.
"No one in the whole wide world, dear," said she, and put her arms round his bull neck.
I recollect trying to think about something (about anything in the whole wide world, I was not particular) without the smallest effect.
And there he stood, looking a little upward, with one hand thrust into the breast of his coat, and the other playing with his old-fashioned gold watch-chain: his head thrown a little on one side, and his hat a little more on one side than his head, (but that was evidently accident; not his ordinary way of wearing it,) with such a pleasant smile playing about his mouth, and such a comical expression of mingled slyness, simplicity, kind- heartedness, and good-humour, lighting up his jolly old face, that Nicholas would have been content to have stood there and looked at him until evening, and to have forgotten, meanwhile, that there was such a thing as a soured mind or a crabbed countenance to be met with in the whole wide world.
"I'm still your buckaroo, and to this day your hugs are the very best in the whole wide world.
Just wondering why in the whole wide world of f**k the stewards at #scotlab19 have apparently distributed copies of the communist, Assadsupporting, Putinendorsing, Brexiteer newspaper The Morning Star to every delegate's seat?
The whole wide world now knows - without an iota of doubt - that this country is sincere in its struggle for peace.
The best Christmas season in the whole wide world! For new year, we are still planning if we stay home at Chateau De MilagrosSampaloc in Manila for the New Year's countdown or in Marriott, Solaire or elsewhere where my big family will truly enjoy the New Year's countdown.
For the first time in his life, the singer said he realized how 'songs have their true meaning and there's hope for everyone in the whole wide world.'