all or nothing
Definition
› relates to doing something either completely or not at all: She either loves you or hates you - it's all or nothing with her. The government has rejected the all-or-nothing approach in favour of a compromise solution.Complete and wholeVery and extreme
(Definition of all or nothing from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- a/one hundred percent idiom
- all told idiom
- all-in-one adjective
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- altogether adverb
- clean adjective (COMPLETE)
- clean adverb
- completely adverb
- flat adverb (COMPLETELY)
- full-length adjective (USUAL LENGTH)
- fully adverb (COMPLETELY)
- fully adverb (GREATEST POSSIBLE)
- fully fledged adjective
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