How to Use all things to all people/men in a Sentence

all things to all people/men

noun phrase
Definition of all things to all people/mennext
  • Own your space and do not try to be all things to all people.
    — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2021
  • There are politicians who want to be all things to all people.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2021
  • That could put less pressure on one piece of work to be all things to all people.
    — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Is there one place in the sphere of social media that’s all things to all people?
    — J. Clara Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Perhaps being all things to all people doesn’t leave much left over for you at the end of the day.
    — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The boat show doesn't try to be all things to all people, said show manager Ben Nielsen.
    — Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The goal, as The Nation’s John Nichols observed last week, is to somehow be all things to all people.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 22 June 2022
  • The government’s job is not to provide all things to all people.
    — John Sharp | [email protected], al, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Or just another a stealthy pol trying to be all things to all people?
    — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
  • In fact, trying to be all things to all people can have the opposite effect.
    — Allbusiness, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Businesses should never try to be all things to all people.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Brands that try to be all things to all people need to have very deep pockets when buyers are more demanding.
    — Richard Cook, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Trying to be all things to all people is usually a recipe for failure.
    — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Outside Business Journal Try to be all things to all people, and end up pleasing none.
    — Outside Online, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The former president spent the early part of the pandemic trying to be all things to all people.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 11 Jan. 2024
  • You might be tempted to spread yourself thin right now, but being all things to all people just isn't possible.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The institution could grow and become all things to all people because it was intertwined with the state.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
  • But that feeling — of guilt, of trying to be all things to all people while forging ahead with your career — is something that never goes away.
    — Mika Brzezinski, NBC News, 21 Apr. 2021
  • At the same time, Bed Bath & Beyond has been faulted by customers and analysts alike for trying to be all things to all people buying home goods.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Companies, however, can rarely be all things to all people.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 2 Feb. 2022
  • But the scramble to make Richter Tavern all things to all people has left it trapped in its own overproduced movie, flickering prettily against a brick wall.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Jan. 2022
  • No better example exists of Mitchell’s paintings’ ability to be all things to all people than Sans Neige (1969).
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
  • In its never-ending quest to be all things to all people, Netflix is continuing to build out a sizeable stack of horror content.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 1 July 2021
  • All of these qualities are important but no one institution can be all things to all people.
    — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2020
  • For me, The Rings of Power achieves more baseline success in its mixture of Easter eggs and spectacle, but in trying to be all things to all people all the time, the show is beautifully bland.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The broadcast networks have always sought to be all things to all people, but that’s an almost impossible task in our fragmented marketplace.
    — Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • Your female relatives in their 30s feel pressure to be all things to all people (their children, parents, partners, supervisors).
    — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
  • Your female relatives in their 30s feel personal pressure to be all things to all people (their children, parents, partners, supervisors).
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Espen Øino, who also designed Wanderlust’s predecessor Bold, created the yacht’s key design feature, a 4,300-sq. ft. hangar that becomes all things to all people.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The unfortunate plight of anyone who makes commercial art for a fractured and marginalized community is that our creations are expected to somehow be all things to all people within that community.
    — Camille Perri, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Nov. 2020

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