all the world and his wife in English

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{
  "etymology_text": "From Polite Conversation by Jonathan Swift, 1731.",
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      "expansion": "all the world and his wife pl (plural only)",
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        "Everybody imaginable."
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        "(colloquial) Everybody imaginable."
      ],
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        "plural",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "all the world and his wife"
}

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{
  "etymology_text": "From Polite Conversation by Jonathan Swift, 1731.",
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    {
      "word": "everybody and his mother"
    }
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Everybody imaginable."
      ],
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          "everybody"
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        "(colloquial) Everybody imaginable."
      ],
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        "plural",
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  "word": "all the world and his wife"
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"all the world and his wife" meaning in English

Noun