everyone and their dog

English

Alternative forms

• everybody and their dog

Pronunciation

• Audio (AU):

  (file)

Pronoun

everyone and their dog

1. (idiomatic) A large number of people; most people.
   • 2009, Susan Case, That's a Dead One Alright, Tate Publishing (2009), →ISBN, page 114:

     "Mind you, this was years before everyone and their dog had a cell phone."

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:everybody.

Translations

a large number of people

• Japanese: 猫も杓子も
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: ciento y la madre (es)