Meanings
- idiomaticnot comparableTotally, completely.
It hopes for an order for the Bakerloo Line, where trains dating from 1972 still ply the route, looking every inch their 50 years.
2025 January 8, Philip Haigh, “Will all of the UK train assembly lines survive?”, in RAIL, number 1026, page 511 more example
Wigan looked every inch a side languishing in the relegation zone and there was never any indication they would arrest a run that had seen them lose all of their previous eight Premier League matches at Arsenal.
2011 January 22, Ian Hughes, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC - not comparableThe whole (of something).
He knows every inch of the road.
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The latter two required a long track walk from Whitechapel (after services ended and power was switched off), alongside TfL staff who know every inch of this historic stretch of line.
2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 49
Translations
Bulgarian напълно
- напълно (napălno)totally, completely
Cite this entry
every inch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/every%20inch
“every inch.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/every%20inch. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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