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词组 once and for all
释义
Idiom
once and for all
Theme: FINALITY
finally and irreversibly. (Fixed order.)
I want to get this problem settled once and for all.I told him once and for all that he has to start studying.

Slang
once and for all
Theme: PERMANENCE
mod. permanently.
I'm gonna take care of you once and for all!I would like to get this ridiculous problem settled once and for all.
Idiom
once and for all
completely and finally.
I wish we could settle the matter once and for all.
idiomonce and for all(also once for all BrE)1 change/make sth different if you deal with or decide something once and for all, you finish dealing with it or make a final decision about it:We should support any political solution, as long as it solves the problems of the refugees once and for all.Smokers should take this opportunity to give up their addictive habit once and for all.He is setting up a study of marine mammals, to determine once for all how badly they are being affected by pollution.2 if you say something once and for all, you say it very firmly and clearly, so that you will not have to say it again:Once and for all, I have never received any money from Valdez.The Church should declare once and for all that it does not support the regime's racist policies.

once and for all

Permanently. Tom went back to the outpost to settle his feud once and for all. The president is hoping to silence critics once and for all with this latest law.

once and for all

finally; permanently. Sue: I'm going to get this place organized once and for all! Alice: That'll be the day! "We need to get this straightened out once and for all," said Bob, for the fourth time today.

once and for all

As a settled matter, finally, permanently, as in Once and for all, we're not hiring that organist again, or We've settled that question once and for all. This expression is in effect an abbreviation for "one time and for all time." [Late 1400s]

once and for all (or once for all)

now and for the last time; finally.

ˌonce and for ˈall

finally and definitely: I’ve decided once and for all that this city is not the place for me.

once and for all

Finally and decisively. This phrase, literally meaning “this one final time which will serve forever,” dates from the fifteenth century. The earliest appearance in print is in William Caxton’s translation of the Foure Sonnes of Aymon (ca. 1489): “We oughte to ask it of hym ones for all.”
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