every : Idioms & Phrases

• adverb to the same degree (often followed by `as')
  equally; as.
  
  • they were equally beautiful
  • 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 one. Obs. "Every each of them hath some vices." Burton..

Webster 1913

• adverb in every way; completely
  
  • he was every inch a statesman

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• adjective satellite (used as intensive) every
  
  • every last one of you

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• adverb at the end of each day
  nightly.
  
  • she checks on her roses nightly

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• adverb occasionally
  every now and then.
  
  • every so often she visits her father

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• at short intervals; occasionally; repeatedly; frequently. Colloq.

Webster 1913

• adverb in three month intervals
  quarterly.
  
  • interest is compounded quarterly

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• adverb occasionally
  every now and then.
  
  • every so often she visits her father

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• adverb without missing a week
  each week; hebdomadally; weekly.
  
  • she visited her aunt weekly

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• adverb in a random manner
  arbitrarily; willy-nilly; indiscriminately; haphazardly; randomly; at random.
  
  • the houses were randomly scattered
  • bullets were fired into the crowd at random
• adverb haphazardly
  helter-skelter.
  
  • the books were piled up helter-skelter

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• adverb without missing a year
  annually; yearly; each year.
  
  • they travel to China annually

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