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— E.E. Cummings

It is said that if the dead who died in the Great

War were placed head to feet, they would stretch

from New York to San Francisco, and from San

Francisco back again to New York; and if those

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pull out all the stops

Part of Speechverb

To reserve or hold back nothing.

In a Sentence

“They pulled out all the stops for the gala wedding.”

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Synonyms

empty the tankgive one's allgo all outthe whole nine yardsup to eleven

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Related Words

go the whole hogstop at nothingspare no effortleave nothing in the tankgo for brokedig deep

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