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everyone who's anyone

everyone who's anyone is the alternative form of everybody who is anybody.

Meaning of everybody who is anybody

Noun

everybody who is anybody (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic) All of the people who are well-known or important, especially those who have prominent social standing.
    • Sir William: I'm convinced that everybody who is anybody has got to buckle to, and save the landmarks left. Unless we're true to our caste, and prepared to work for it, the landed classes are going to go under to this infernal democratic spirit in the air.1912, John Galsworthy, The Eldest Son, act I

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Everyone who's anyone is the alternative form of everybody who is anybody.

Words near everyone who's anyone in the dictionary

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  10. everyplace
  11. everypony

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