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TO A MAN
I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without exception
Example:
voted for unionization to a man
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Context examples:
The hunters,—there were six of them,—to a man, turned and regarded me.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
In the days before, White Fang had had the wisdom to cower down and submit to a man with a club in his hand; but this wisdom now left him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Nursing does not belong to a man; it is not his province.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Make yourself easy, there is no danger of that, for I heard Tilney hallooing to a man who was just passing by on horseback, that they were going as far as Wick Rocks.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Oh! to be sure, cried Emma, it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
A grip of the hand, the tightening of an arm over the shoulder, a sob in unison, are expressions of sympathy dear to a man's heart.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The seamen threw me the end of the cord, which I fastened to a hole in the fore-part of the boat, and the other end to a man of war; but I found all my labour to little purpose; for, being out of my depth, I was not able to work.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
As you decide, you shall be left as you were before, and neither richer nor wiser, unless the sense of service rendered to a man in mortal distress may be counted as a kind of riches of the soul.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It is no compliment to a man.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I addressed myself to a man behind the counter, who was weighing some rice for a young woman; but the latter, taking the inquiry to herself, turned round quickly.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
