be all things to all men/people

LIKE somebody OR somethingto try to please or be useful to all of many different groups, often without succeeding 力图讨好所有人〔往往都未能达到目的〕

In order to get votes, he tries to be all things to all men.

为了拉到选票，他想四面讨好。

Examples from the Corpus

be all things to all men/people• It is all things to all men ... and this is perhaps its number one axiom.• I finally realized I could not be all things to all people.• No-one is all things to all people, and Anthea is no exception.• Andrea felt tremendous pressure to succeed, to continue to be all things to all people.• Politicians have to be all things to all people.• For years, the stores had managed to be all things to all people.• Anyway, these compendiums try to be all things to all people.• In this sense many of the international firms will try to be all things to all people.• The single truck was all things to all men and women.

→ be all things to all men/people at thing(20)

词汇	be all things to all men/people
释义	be all things to all men/people be all things to all men/people LIKE somebody OR somethingto try to please or be useful to all of many different groups, often without succeeding 力图讨好所有人〔往往都未能达到目的〕 In order to get votes, he tries to be all things to all men. 为了拉到选票，他想四面讨好。 Examples from the Corpus be all things to all men/people• It is all things to all men ... and this is perhaps its number one axiom.• I finally realized I could not be all things to all people.• No-one is all things to all people, and Anthea is no exception.• Andrea felt tremendous pressure to succeed, to continue to be all things to all people.• Politicians have to be all things to all people.• For years, the stores had managed to be all things to all people.• Anyway, these compendiums try to be all things to all people.• In this sense many of the international firms will try to be all things to all people.• The single truck was all things to all men and women. → be all things to all men/people at thing(20)
随便看	writable write write away for write away for something write away for sth write back write down write down something write down sth write-in write in write in writein write-ins write-ins write into write-off write off write off writeoff write-offs write-offs write out write out sb write out somebody