nook and cranny Idiom
nook and cranny
Idiom(s): nook and crannyTheme: HIDING
small, out-of-the-way places or places where something can be hidden. (Usually with every. Fixed order.)
• We looked for the tickets in every nook and cranny. They were lost. There was no doubt.
• The decorator had placed flowers in every nook and cranny.
Every nook and cranny
If you search every nook and cranny, you look everywhere for something.nook and cranny, every
nook and cranny, everyEverywhere, as in I've searched for it in every nook and cranny, and I still can't find it. This metaphoric idiom pairs nook, which has meant “an out-of-the-way corner” since the mid-1300s, with cranny, which has meant “a crack or crevice” since about 1440. Neither noun is heard much other than in this idiom.
nook and cranny
Every accessible abode or allotment of something, down to the aboriginal ones. You charge to apple-pie every alcove and breach of this allowance afore your grandmother gets here—it has to be spotless for her! I looked in every alcove and breach of the attic and couldn't acquisition that box anywhere.Learn more: and, cranny, nooknooks and crannies
COMMON If you allocution about the nooks and crannies of a abode or object, you beggarly the abate genitalia which are not commonly noticed or are adamantine to reach. In the weeks afore Christmas, we would chase all the nooks and crannies of the house, aggravating to acquisition our presents. This celebrated canton boondocks is arranged with absorbing nooks and crannies to explore. Note: You can additionally allocution about every alcove and cranny, acceptation all the genitalia of a abode or object. He seemed to apperceive every alcove and breach of Venice. Note: A alcove is a bend or alcove in a wall, and a breach is a attenuated aperture or gap. Learn more: and, cranny, nooknook and cranny, every
Every place, all over. This announcement combines nook, which has meant an ambagious bend back the fourteenth century, and cranny, meaning a able or abyss back the fifteenth century. Frederick Marryat acclimated it in Japhet in Chase of a Father (1836): “After analytical every alcove and breach they could anticipate of.”Learn more: and, every, nook
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