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How do you say by all means?
Synonyms of by all means
- all right,
- alright,
- assuredly,
- certainly,
- clearly,
- definitely,
- doubtless,
- easily,
What does it mean to say by all means necessary?
: by doing whatever is needed He vowed that he would succeed by any means necessary.
Is by all means sarcastic?
“By all means” is in the same register as “please,” “thank you,” or “you’re welcome,” said sarcastically. Perhaps: Je t’en prie,… Vas-y, mon cher,…. It’s clearly intended sarcastically in the examples given in post 1), but it is not always sarcastic in my experience.
What is the meaning of by means?
phrase. If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process.
Is it by all means or by any means?
It is a set phrase, which means that its structure doesn’t vary. Therefore, people never say by all mean or by any means when they mean absolutely. (By any means necessary is a phrase of its.) By all means adds emphasis to the speaker’s point.
Who said by all means necessary?
By any means necessary is a translation of a phrase used by Martinican intellectual Frantz Fanon in his 1960 Address to the Accra Positive Action Conference, “Why we use violence”. The phrase had also been used by French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre in his play Dirty Hands in 1948.
What does by any means mean?
: by doing whatever is needed.
Do it by all means?
convention. You can say ‘by all means’ to tell someone that you are very willing to allow them to do something. [formulae] ‘Can I come and have a look at your house?’ —’Yes by all means’.
Where do we use by means?
We use by meaning ‘not later than’ to refer to arrangements and deadlines: They said that the plumber would be here by Monday. The postman is always here by 11 am.
What is the meaning of the idiom by and by?
by and by. After a while, soon, as in She’ll be along by and by. The expression probably relies on the meaning of by as a succession of quantities (as in “two by two”). This adverbial phrase came to be used as a noun, denoting either procrastination or the future.