English Phrase of the Day

most of all

Definitions

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most of all
1. adv. to a greater extent than anything else
Analysis
most
1. det. superlative degree of much.
The teams competed to see who could collect the most money.
2. det. superlative degree of many: the comparatively largest number of (ngd, construed with the definite article)
The team with the most points wins.
3. det. superlative degree of many: the majority of; more than half of (ngd, construed without the definite article)
of
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
all
1. adv. (degree) intensifier.
It suddenly went all quiet.
She was all, “Whatever.”
2. adv. (poetic) Entirely.
3. adv. Apiece; each.

Most of all it never allows the audience to forget that this is theatre, a wonderful make-believe.

Heavy drinking and, most of all, cigarettes are the immediate cause of many tumours.

You have sustenance from your apples and pears and most of all your cigarettes, which you breathe as though they offered you life itself.

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