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Every bit   /ˈɛvəri bɪt/   Listen
Every bit

adverb
1.
To the same degree (often followed by 'as').  Synonyms: as, equally.  "Birds were singing and the child sang as sweetly" , "Sang as sweetly as a nightingale" , "He is every bit as mean as she is"






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"Every bit" Quotes from Famous Books



... the most beautiful thing on earth! I love you with all my heart and soul, with every bit of me. Say you ...
— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse

... "let your whip fall if you like; but if you do, I'll lodge this bullet," touching the pistol with his left forefinger, "in your heart, and your last mass is said. You blame Lucre and M'Slime for making convarts; but ai'en't you every bit as anxious to bring over the Protestants as they are to bring over us? Aren't you paradin' them Sunday af'ther Sunday, and boastin' that you are takin' more from the heretics than they are takin' from you? Wasn't your last convart Bob Beatty, that you brought over because he had the fallin' sickness, ...
— Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton

... went on, "and—oh yes, I've got candies and something with paper round it and—oh yes, yes, it is a pin! Not quite like yours, but just every bit as pretty!" ...
— Christmas with Grandma Elsie • Martha Finley

... corner," as they called it, and jealously they stopped up all the holes through which the painful reality might have crept through to them. But where they differed from us, is that they had much less dryness of soul, with every bit as much pedantry—but such ingenuous pedantry! That's what saved them—their generosity of soul, the youth of their hearts. They loved each other, and they ended by growing fond of life and getting in contact with it again. Nebridius journeyed from Carthage ...
— Saint Augustin • Louis Bertrand

... demonstration I have ever seen, in all the years that I have been upon the stage. Many and many a time audiences have been good to me. They have clapped me and they have cheered me, but never has an audience treated me as that one did. I had to use every bit of strength and courage that I had to keep ...
— A Minstrel In France • Harry Lauder


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