Meaning of be-all | Babel Free

Definitions

The whole; all that is to be.

poetic

Examples

“That but this blow / Might be the be-all and the end-all!”

“Bowen also spoke of […] teaching her daughter to rely not just on a mother, but on a community. "No one person should try to be the be-all to another person. We must surround our children with people they can count on."”

“[…] to be happy with their lot in life, content with things as they are, things that may once have been be-alls and absolute end-alls but that lost their intoxication after five years, put them on automatic pilot after ten and became a prison after fifteen.”

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