just about anything
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3.2
- idiom
:
casi cualquier cosa
- He can fix just about anything around the house, from leaky faucets to broken chairs.
Could be swimming, could be skiing, could be just about anything, snowboarding, etcetera.
- Could be swimming, could be skiing, could be just about anything, snowboarding, etcetera.
- And because they can justify just about anything, they will.
- Medical debt is responsible for more people being financially bankrupt than just about anything else at this point.
- So after a certain number of years, you can confess to, you know, just about anything but murder and and they can't get you.
- But before we get into the story of how whiskey became your life's work, let's roll it back to before you could drink just about anything growing up.
- Now, virtue is a term that was very widespread in Hume's time, indeed so widespread that it could mean just about anything to anyone.
- And things start to get very dicey because people need meaning and they'll they'll do just about anything to get it.
Examples
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I bet you would do just about anything, Lane.
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We will tackle just about anything if it's of interest.
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So if this is an information set, then we can fill up this thing here with just about anything we want, right?
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Your father loves you more than just about anything in his life.
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At the end of the day, we want our customers to feel that they can do just about anything you can do with the bank.
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Somebody like that could get away with just about anything.
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And sometimes when you want something so, so bad, you do just about anything to get it.
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You have enough money; you can get just about anything you want.
Fiction book (1991) -
I am comfortable telling her just about anything.
Academic text (2014) -
Your child could be arrested while at school for just about anything these days.
Blog text (5)
Synonyms
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4.1
A very large range of things you can imagine
A way to say there are almost all things you can think of
Antonyms
How Broad
Surface Forms
Morphology
Each component contributes a predictable meaning: 'just' as an intensifier, 'about' as an approximator, and 'anything' as an indefinite pronoun. Combined these yield the compositional sense 'almost anything' (nearly everything), a standard modifier + quantifier pattern that a B1 learner who knows the parts can readily infer.
Etymology
Just about anything comes from everyday speech where just about is used to mean 'almost' or 'very close to' something. So when people say just about anything, they mean 'almost everything' — any thing or possibility with only small exceptions.