be-all and end-all

/bee-awl uhnd -end-awl/US // ˈbiˌɔl ənd ˈɛndˌɔl //

万能的,万事通,万能的东西

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : the central and all-important part: His work was the be-all and end-all of his existence.

nounessential factor

Synonyms

As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.
As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
The benefits of incumbency are quite potent, especially in the all-important area of raising campaign funds.
I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
On to Gaba Tepe just in time to see the opening, the climax and the end of the dreaded Turkish counter attack.
He wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.
Under the internal pressure his whiskers stood on end and his face grew red.
She stood, in her young purity, at one end of the chain of years, and Mrs. Chepstow—did she really stand at the other?

/bee-awl uhnd -end-awl/US // ˈbiˌɔl ənd ˈɛndˌɔl //

万能的,万事通,万能的东西

n.名词 noun

1
- : the central and all-important part: His work was the be-all and end-all of his existence.

nounessential factor

Synonyms

As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.
As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
The benefits of incumbency are quite potent, especially in the all-important area of raising campaign funds.
I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
On to Gaba Tepe just in time to see the opening, the climax and the end of the dreaded Turkish counter attack.
He wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.
Under the internal pressure his whiskers stood on end and his face grew red.
She stood, in her young purity, at one end of the chain of years, and Mrs. Chepstow—did she really stand at the other?