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once and for all
Idioms and Phrases
As a settled matter, finally, permanently, as in Once and for all, we're not hiring that organist again , or We've settled that question once and for all . This expression is in effect an abbreviation for “one time and for all time.” [Late 1400s]Example Sentences
In a 2024 campaign video, Trump declared that "We are going to get this anti-American insanity out of our institutions once and for all. We are going to have real education in America."
"We will bring in tough new laws to ensure the OfS can quickly stop bad actors gaming the system once and for all."
"This would bring jobs to the area and stop the fires once and for all."
"Please just allow me this chance to put all this behind me once and for all."
It said the appointment is "a vital step in the journey towards completing the goal of ending paramilitarism in Northern Ireland once and for all".
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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