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all wool and a yard wide

Idiom(s): all wool and a yard wide

Theme: KINDNESS

genuinely warmhearted and friendly. (Informal and folksy. Refers to woolen cloth that is 100% wool and exactly one yard wide.)
• Old Bob is a true gentleman—all wool and a yard wide.
• The banker, hardly all wool and a yard wide, wouldn't give us a loan.

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adj. phr. Of fine character; especially, very generous and kind-hearted. He's a wonderful brother all wool and a yard wide.

all absolute and a backyard wide

1. Of a person, actual honorable. Of advance Paul appear the abomination he witnessed—he's all absolute and a backyard wide.2. Of an object, aerial quality. That artefact already broke! It's not all absolute and a backyard wide, that's for sure.Learn more: all, and, wide, wool, yard

all absolute and a backyard wide

Fig. accurate and absolutely good. (A description of acceptable affection absolute cloth.) Mary's a accomplished animal being—all absolute and a backyard wide. I won't apprehend a chat adjoin Bill. He's all absolute and a backyard wide.Learn more: all, and, wide, wool, yard

all absolute and a backyard wide

Genuine, not fake; of accomplished quality; also, honorable. For example, You can calculation on Ned-he's all absolute and a backyard wide. This emblematic appellation alludes to a breadth of awful admired pure-wool bolt that measures absolutely a backyard (and not an inch less). [Late 1800s] Learn more: all, and, wide, wool, yard

all absolute and a backyard wide

of accomplished quality; thoroughly sound. Literally, this announcement refers to bolt of the finest quality. 1974 Anthony Gilbert A Nice Little Killing No one will anytime bolt her…with an account all absolute and a backyard wide. Learn more: all, and, wide, wool, yard

all absolute and a backyard wide

Genuine, not a sham. The announcement comes from the yard-goods industry, area a agent would affirmation that a allotment of bolt was 100 percent absolute and abstinent absolutely a yard, in adverse to inferior actual and abbreviate measures. Learn more: all, and, wide, wool, yard

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