Word meaning accepting of all

adv.

in spite of the flaws/minuses/disadvantages; with goods and bads; with minuses and pluses

love / accept smb. flaws and all = love /accept smb. as he/she is, with qualities and flaws.

adj.

liked best of all

[US] Example Sentence: Reverso is my newest favorite online dictionary so I have shared it with my EAL students in the high school.

exp.

expression meaning that a situation is no longer certain or predictable and that anything can happen

originating from horse racing where «all bets are off» indicated that bets already made were null due to various unpredicted factors

exp.

intensifying expression, often used with «look»

he looked for all the world as if he was going to cry: il avait vraiment l’air d’être sur le point de pleurer

adj.

all right; runing smoothly

[Slang];[UK] Everything is tickety-boo with building our new house; soon we will move in.

id.

phrase used to qualify something appearing to you incomprehensible or hard to understand

According to Albert, this partial differential equation was beautiful, harmonious, speaking louder than any words while it was all Greek to me and just looked like fly droppings on a sheet of paper!

adj.

all right; good, OK, satisfactory

informal

exp.

have everything together; have all things settled/organized

E.g.: Just when I had got all my ducks in a row and I was ready to go, I received a call and had to cancel my trip.

n.

a colloquial word meaning a bribe: policemen accepting bungs from journalists

v.

A culture of internet only jobs has coined the phrase Wirk. Wirk simply means Internet Work. Internet work is defined by job opportunities that did not exist before the rise of the internet and furthermore the work is likely to be carried out over the internet and payment received for work undertaken via the internet. Wirk describes both full time and part time internet work. Because of the nature of Wirk and the ability for anyone that has internet connection to earn money from Wirk, it is currently more likely to be a part time occupation than full time. Paid Online Questionnaires, Content Writing, Search Marketing are all examples of Wirk.

This is a term rising in popularity

exp.

it occurred to me, I suddenly thought of it, I had an idea all of a sudden

E.g: I wondered all day long how to solve this problem and it suddenly hit me…I had to talk to Marry.

n.

«It’s a list of all the people and things I hate so much I want to hit them in the face with a shovel.» Concept coming from the Marian Keyes novel, The Mystery of Mercy Close (2012).

exp.

Expression used to mean that you have provided fingerprints for all your fingers, thumbs included (i.e. 10 fingers), as opposed to having provided only two fingerprints.

[US];[Adm.] US gov. upon Visa requirement: «Have you been ten-printed?»

exp.

means that the figure quoted is increasing all the time

my overdraft is a thousand euros and counting; they have three kids and counting

exp.

expression meaning that several or all members of a family have something in common (a skill, a feature, a path or a behavior)

E.g.: He became an actor too. It runs in the family.

exp.

celebrate smth. with excitement; party wildly; party all night long

exp.

go to the extreme; do everything that could be done; exhaust all possibilities and resources

exp.

a humorous way of saying that something is not needed at all

[Hum.];[Iron.]