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know-all

/noh-awl/US // ˈnoʊˌɔl //

万事通,全知全能,众所周知,百事通

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : a know-it-all.

Examples

  • But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.

  • I don't know why or who's doing it, but it's the legacy…and it's a legacy that is so important to the culture.

  • The benefits of incumbency are quite potent, especially in the all-important area of raising campaign funds.

  • They know they will face either a swift backlash or deafening silence.

  • What they say is, ‘We don’t approve of violence, but you know what?

  • She is quite true, but not wise, and your left hand must not know what your right hand is doing.

  • He came to the top of the stairs with a lamp in his hand, and wanted to know what the rumpus was about.

  • It seems very strange that I shall actually know Liszt at last, after hearing of him so many years.

  • Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.

  • The policemen looked dull and heavy, as if never again would any one be criminal, and as if they had come to know it.