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anything
[ en-ee-thing ]
pronoun
- any thing whatever; something, no matter what:
Do you have anything for a toothache?
noun
- a thing of any kind.
adverb
- in any degree; to any extent; in any way; at all:
Does it taste anything like chocolate?
anything
/ ˈɛɪˌθɪŋ /
pronoun
- any object, event, action, etc, whatever
anything might happen
noun
- a thing of any kind
have you anything to declare?
adverb
- in any way
he wasn't anything like his father
- anything butby no means; not in the least
she was anything but happy
- like anything(intensifier; usually euphemistic)
he ran like anything
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Idioms and Phrases
- anything but, in no degree or respect; not in the least:
The plans were anything but definite.
- anything goes, any type of conduct, dress, speech, etc., is considered acceptable or valid or is likely to be encountered and tolerated:
That resort is a place where anything goes!
More idioms and phrases containing anything
- can't do anything with
- if anything
- like anything
- not anything like
Example Sentences
"I felt on top of the world if I'm being honest, because I had never had that feeling of anything doing that to me," Davie said.
"But I really don't think that for me, anything has changed about them, they are still mum and dad," she says.
Now a woman in her mid 70s, she had never known much about her grandfather, and paid for the private test to see if it threw up anything unusual.
“This is not about me; I don’t want anything to be about me,” Betts said.
Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives hopes the Grassley-Cantwell bill might have a path to passage in their chamber eventually, but one senior congressional aide said that leadership is doubtful anything will move in the short term.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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