• say it all

say it all (suomeksi)

Määritelmät:

• (lb, en, idiomatic) To express the essential characteristics of a person, thing, or situation in a concise, well-crafted turn of phrase or in some other pithy manner.Cf. (w, William Safire) ([http://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/20/magazine/on-language-that-says-it-all.html ''New York Times'', May 20, 1984]): "To say it all means ‘to reveal the essence’ or ‘to signal the bottom line,’ as if what small amount has been said or shown is a synecdoche for all that could possibly exist on the subject."