| 词组 | for all intents and purposes |
| 释义 | Idiom for all intents and purposes Theme: ESSENTIALLY - BASICALLY virtually; practically speaking. (Sometimes this expression has very little meaning. Fixed order.)He entered the room, looking for all intents and purposes as if he would burst into song.She said that for all intents and purposes she had completed her assignment. Idiom for all intents and purposes almost completely.Escape from that prison was, for all intents and purposes, impossible.A licensed physician's assistant is to all intents and purposes a doctor. for all intents and purposesIn every practical or functional sense; almost completely. The phrase is often misstated as "for all intensive purposes." The app is finished, for all intents and purposes. We just need to iron out a few issues before it's released. For all intents and purposes, he's the leader of the organization. He just doesn't have the title. for all intents and purposesCliché seeming as if; looking as if. Tom stood there, looking, for all intents and purposes, as if he could strangle Sally, but, being the gentleman that he is, he just glowered. Mary: Is the car washed now? John: For all intents and purposes, yes, but I didn't dry it yet. all intents and purposes, for (to)In practical terms; virtually. Since intent and purpose mean the same thing, the term is a tautology. According to Eric Partridge, it has been a cliché since the mid-nineteenth century. It originated in English law in the 1500s, when it was even more long-windedly phrased, to all intents, constructions and purposes. |
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