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that ever walked on two legs

that ever walked on two legs phrase: that ever lived.

Phrase

that ever walked on two legs

  1. (idiomatic) That ever lived.
    • Oh, it didn’t surprise me in the least to hear this, and at the same time to be told that Fresleven was the gentlest, quietest creature that ever walked on two legs.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 198

Questions about that ever walked on two legs

What does that ever walked on two legs mean?
That ever walked on two legs means that ever lived.
What part of speech is that ever walked on two legs?
That ever walked on two legs is a phrase.

Words near that ever walked on two legs in the dictionary

  1. that cock won't fight
  2. that did it
  3. that does it
  4. that dog don't run
  5. that dog won't hunt
  6. that ever walked on two legs
  7. that figures
  8. that girl
  9. that guy
  10. that is
  11. that is it

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