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root-and-branch
adjective
- on a large scale or without discrimination; wholesale
root-and-branch reforms
adverb
- entirely; completely; utterly
Brazil needs reform root and branch
Idioms and Phrases
Utterly, completely, as in The company has been transformed root and branch by the new management . Alluding to both the underground and aboveground parts of a tree, this idiom was first recorded in 1640.Example Sentences
And it begins with the root-and-branch rejection of Abraham Lincoln.
He had a bold, forward-looking mind, and was in favour of root-and-branch changes.
Thenceforward it was tacitly agreed between them that all root-and-branch criticism of Kitty and her ways was taboo.
Thus the would-be root-and-branch reforms found themselves in a dilemma.
Reform is impossible; therefore let there be root-and-branch revolution.
If you go in for root-and-branch efforts, you will get root-and-branch results.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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