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all wool and a yard wide

all wool and a yard wide phrase: of high quality.

Phrase

all wool and a yard wide

  1. (dated) Of high quality.
    • about 1900, O. Henry, The Missing Chord
      And that was the piano that Uncle Cal had selected; and standing by it was the good, fine, all-wool girl that never let him know it.

Questions about all wool and a yard wide

What does all wool and a yard wide mean?
All wool and a yard wide means of high quality.
What part of speech is all wool and a yard wide?
All wool and a yard wide is a phrase.

Words near all wool and a yard wide in the dictionary

  1. all very well
  2. all wax and no wick
  3. all wet
  4. All Whites
  5. all whithers
  6. all wool and a yard wide
  7. all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
  8. all y'all
  9. all y'all's
  10. all your base are belong to us
  11. all'antica

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