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By all means   /baɪ ɔl minz/   Listen
By all means

adverb
1.
Definitely or certainly.  Antonym: by no means.






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"By all means" Quotes from Famous Books



... to her heart-hungering parents in the mountain land. Carol was fairly strong, David was fairly well. The baby being healthy, and the parents being sanitary, the danger to its tiny lungs was minimized,—and by all means send them ...
— Sunny Slopes • Ethel Hueston

... us go there, by all means," said Miss Wilson, not disposed to stand on trifles at the risk of a ...
— An Unsocial Socialist • George Bernard Shaw

... "By all means. But I could give them no strength. They may be sure at any rate of what little I can do for them out ...
— The Prime Minister • Anthony Trollope

... any principles to stand by," he wrote, "by all means stand by them; but if all you mean is throwing cold water on other people's principles, my advice is to make no move. Dissembling your own uneasiness in the matter and quieting their anxious scruples is one of those matters ...
— Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge • Arthur Christopher Benson

... for artists to do is to find out what physical conditions make for the best art in the long run, and then secure these conditions in as short a run as possible. If tuberculosis makes for it, then by all means let those of us who are sincerely devoted to art be inoculated without delay. If the family doctor refuses to oblige, all we have to do is to avoid fresh air, kiss indiscriminately, practice a systematic ...
— The Joyful Heart • Robert Haven Schauffler


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