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be-all and end-all
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun be-all and end-all has 1 sense
- be-all and end-all(n = noun.cognition) be all and end all - the essential factor; the all-important element; the supreme aim; "profit is the be-all and end-all of business" is a kind of component, constituent, element, factor, ingredient
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