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Definition of Pull out all the stops
1. Verb. Use all resources available. "The organizers pulled out all the stops for the centennial meeting"
Definition of Pull out all the stops
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To reserve or hold back nothing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pull Out All The Stops
Literary usage of Pull out all the stops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair by Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye (1995)
"Clarridge cabled the CIA Chief in Country 15 and ordered him to "pull out all
the stops" to solve the problem.95 Secord called an official in Country 15's ..."
2. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1823)
"... long after he ought to hare given way to us in the upper-house ;—our only
resource in this dilemma was, to pull out all the stops of the organ and to ..."
3. The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher: In Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Beecher, Henry Ward, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1874)
"If you put on all the pressure of the bellows of this organ, and pull out all
the stops, press all the keys and pedals together, and bring out that ..."
4. Acoustics for Musicians by Percy Carter Buck (1918)
"If you go alone to 'the organ in an empty church, pull out all the stops, fix
down all the notes, and turn on the wind, the result will be a noise best left ..."
5. Celebrate Life: A Guide for Planning All Night Alcohol & Drug-Free edited by Sharon Murphy (1992)
"NOTE: If both are held, the prom party is usually the smaller of the two parties
with the graduation celebration being the "pull out all the stops" ..."
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