LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED

Meaning of LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED in English

v. phr. To try in every way; miss no chance; do everything possible. Usually used in the negative. The police will leave no stone unturned in their search for the bank robbers.

Compare: ALL OUT, BEND HEAVEN AND EARTH, FINE-TOOTH COMB.

American idioms English vocabulary. Английский словарь американских идиом. 2012

LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED — v. look and search thoroughly and comprehensively; search with much care; do everything possible; make all effort to perform a …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED — try every possible course of action in order to achieve something. → stone
Concise Oxford English vocab
LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED — to try every possible course of action in order to find or achieve sth
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED — Synonyms and related words : carry through, clear the decks, comb, consider every angle, exhaust every move, follow out, follow …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED — {v. phr.} To try in every way; miss no chance; do everything possible. - Usually used in the negative. * …
Slang English vocab
LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED — See ↑ LOOK FOR 2
Longman Activator English vocab
LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED — {v. phr.} To try in every way; miss no chance; do everything possible. - Usually used in the negative. * …
Словарь английских идиом
LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED — try in every way, do everything possible The police left no stone unturned when they were looking for the little …
English Idioms vocab
LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED — look everywhere, look high and low In our search for Mom's wedding ring, we left no stone unturned.
English Idioms vocabulary
LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED — испробовать всевозможные средства, прилагать все старания
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED — испробовать всевозможные средства, прилагать все старания
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
NO
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
LEAVE
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
STONE — I In building construction, rock cut into blocks and slabs or broken into pieces. It comes as hard as granite …
Английский словарь Британика
STONE — I. ˈstōn noun ( -s ; see sense 3 ) Etymology: Middle English stan, ston, stoon, from Old English stān; …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
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Webster's New International English Dictionary
LEAVE — I. ˈlēv verb ( left ˈleft ; left ; leaving ; leaves ) Etymology: Middle English leven, from Old English …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
UNTURNED — “+ adjective Etymology: un- (I) + turned, past participle of turn : not turned would leave no stone unturned to …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
UNTURNED — (a.) Not turned; not revolved or reversed.
Английский словарь Webster
UNTURNED — ( a. ) Not turned; not revolved or reversed.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
UNTURNED — adj.
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
STONE — — stonable, stoneable , adj. — stoneless , adj. — stonelessness , n. — stonelike , adj. — stoner , …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
NO — no 1 /noh/ , adv., adj., n., pl. noes, nos , v. adv. 1. (a negative used to express dissent, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
LEAVE — leave 1 — leaver , n. /leev/ , v. , left, leaving . v.t. 1. to go out of or …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
STONE — I. ˈstōn noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English stān; akin to Old High German stein stone, Old Church Slavic …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
NO — I. ˈnō adverb Etymology: Middle English, from Old English nā, from ne not + ā always; akin to Old Norse …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
LEAVE — I. ˈlēv verb ( left ˈleft ; leav·ing ) Etymology: Middle English leven, from Old English lǣfan; akin to Old …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
UNTURNED — adj not turned; not revolved or reversed.
Webster English vocab
STONE
Webster English vocab
LEAVE — vi to depart; to set out. 2. leave ·v to cease from; to desist from; to abstain from. 3. leave …
Webster English vocab
UNTURNED — ■ adjective not turned.
Concise Oxford English vocab
STONE — [stone] n (bef. 12c) 1: a concretion of earthy or mineral matter: a (1): such a concretion of indeterminate size …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
LEAVE — [leave] vb left ; leav.ing [ME leven, fr. OE laefan; akin to OHG verleiben to leave, OE belifan to be …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
UNTURNED — unturned BrE AmE ʌn ˈtɜːnd AmE \ -ˈtɝːnd
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
UNTURNED — / ˌʌnˈtɜːnd; NAmE ˌʌnˈtɜːrnd/ adjective • IDIOMS see stone noun
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STONE — / stəʊn; NAmE stoʊn/ noun , verb ■ noun HARD SUBSTANCE 1. [ U ] (often used before nouns or …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
NO — / nəʊ; NAmE noʊ/ exclamation , determiner , adverb , noun ■ exclamation 1. used to give a negative reply …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
LEAVE — / liːv; NAmE / verb , noun ■ verb ( left , left / left; NAmE /) PLACE / PERSON …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STONE — I. stone 1 S2 W1 /stəʊn $ stoʊn/ BrE AmE noun [ Word Family: adjective : ↑ stoned , ↑ …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
NO — I. no 1 S1 W1 /nəʊ $ noʊ/ BrE AmE adverb [ Language: Old English ; Origin: na , from …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
LEAVE — I. leave 1 S1 W1 /liːv/ BrE AmE verb ( past tense and past participle left /left/) [ Language: Old …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
UNTURNED — adj. 1 not turned over, round, away, etc. 2 not shaped by turning.
Английский основной разговорный словарь
STONE — n. & v. --n. 1 a solid non-metallic mineral matter, of which rock is made. b a piece of this, …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
NO — adv. & n. --adv. 1 equivalent to a negative sentence: the answer to your question is negative, your request or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
NO — adj. 1 not any (there is no excuse; no circumstances could justify it; no two of them are alike). 2 …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
LEAVE — v. & n. --v. (past and past part. left) 1 a tr. go away from; cease to remain in or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
UNTURNED — adj. 1 not turned over, round, away, etc. 2 not shaped by turning.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
STONE — n. & v. n. 1 a solid non-metallic mineral matter, of which rock is made. b a piece of this, …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
NO — adv. & n. adv. 1 equivalent to a negative sentence: the answer to your question is negative, your request or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
NO — adj. 1 not any (there is no excuse; no circumstances could justify it; no two of them are alike). 2 …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
LEAVE — v. & n. v. (past and past part. left) 1 a tr. go away from; cease to remain in or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
UNTURNED — adj.1 not turned over, round, away, etc. 2 not shaped by turning.
Oxford English vocab
STONE — n. & v. --n. 1. a solid non-metallic mineral matter, of which rock is made. b a piece of this, …
Oxford English vocab
NO — 1. adj.1 not any (there is no excuse; no circumstances could justify it; no two of them are alike). 2 …
Oxford English vocab
LEAVE — 1. v. & n. --v. (past and past part. left) 1. a tr. go away from; cease to remain in …
Oxford English vocab
STONE — ( stones, stoning, stoned) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. Note: The plural …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
NO — ( noes, or no’s) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. You use …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
LEAVE — ( leaves, leaving, left) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. If you …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STONE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a brick/stone/wooden building ▪ The farmhouse is a long stone building about a century …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
STONE — n. bird stone Black Stone of Mecca kidney stone Middle Stone Age New Stone Age Old Stone Age Rosetta Stone …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
STONE — n. In building construction, rock cut into blocks and slabs or broken into pieces. It comes as hard as granite …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
STONE — Synonyms and related words : Irish confetti, Lydian stone, Tarmac, Tarvia, aa, abyssal rock, acorn, adamant, adamantine, adobe, agate, alexandrite, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
LEAVE — Synonyms and related words : AWOL, French leave, Godspeed, OK, abandon, abdicate, abrupt, abscondence, absence, absence without leave, absentation, absenteeism, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
UNTURNED — See: LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED.
Slang English vocab

American Idioms English vocabulary

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