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of all people

of all people prepositional phrase: especially; more than other people.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Especially; more than other people
    • You of all people have most need of perfect love; because this alone casts out fear1839, The works of the Reverend John Wesley, A.M.
    • What have you, of all people in the world, got to do with it?1908, H. Rider Haggard, The Yellow God

Questions about of all people

What does of all people mean?
Of all people means especially; more than other people.
What part of speech is of all people?
Of all people is a prepositional phrase.

Words near of all people in the dictionary

  1. of a truth
  2. of age
  3. of all
  4. of all conscience
  5. of all loves
  6. of all people
  7. of all places
  8. of all things
  9. of all time
  10. of all times
  11. of an

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