To A Man

Definition: To A Man

To A Man

Adverb

1. Without exception; "voted for unionization to a man".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Assent

With one consent, with one voice, with one accord; unanimously, una voce, by common consent, in chorus, to a man; nem. con., nemine dissentiente; without a dissentient voice; as one man, one and all, on all hands.

Generality

Adverb: whatever, whatsoever; to a man, one and all.

Crosswords: To A Man

When you've been married to a man for forty years you know all that don't amount to a hill of beans. (The Night of the Hunter; writing credit: James Agee; Davis Grubb)

What? What do you say to a man who's crying in your bathroom? (The Odd Couple; writing credit: Neil Simon)

There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him. (The Sound of Music; writing credit: Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II)

Two things matter to a man, the woman he loves and the work he does. (Oil for the Lamps of China; writing credit: Alice Tisdale Hobart; Laird Doyle)

We women can do things to a man we love that men wouldn't do to a rattlesnake. (Saratoga; writing credit: Anita Loos; Robert E. Hopkins)

From a boy to a man (The Dean And I; performing artist: 10CC)

To a man I've never even met (After The Rain Has Fallen; performing artist: Sting)

Only given to a man with hands as cold as ice (Lyin' Eyes; performing artist: The Eagles)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• "I love to have you touch me," ... has to be one of the warmest things a woman can say to a man (reference)

  (more book examples)

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[Woman bringing food to a man in bed] / C.J. Traviés. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Woman and four children waving good-bye to a man in a car. Credit: Library of Congress.

Every Spaniard in Guaimaro could see him, and I believe to a man tried to bring the gallant fellow down. Credit: Library of Congress.

Three children talking to a man, Chinatown, San Francisco. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But happen it as it will, there is, as I have proved, no reason why it should be thought to extend to life and death, at any time, over their children, more than over any body else; neither can there be any pretence why this parental power should keep the child, when grown to a man, in subjection to the will of his parents, any farther than having received life and education from his parents, obliges him to respect, honour, gratitude, assistance and support, all his life, to both father and mother. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Even the old Inspector was desirable, as a change of diet, to a man who had known Alcott.

(r)Monsieur to a convict, is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Israel and the occupied territories

Some Islamic law courts have held that Muslim women may not request a divorce, but that women may be forced to consent if a divorce is granted to a man. (references)

Women

Congo

In addition women often do not realize that they can improve their legal claims by obtaining official documents that declare them to be married legally to a man. (references)

Kuwait

In July the court issued a sentence of 10 years to a man convicted of beating his maid to death in August 1999; his teenage son was placed in detention for an unspecified period as a juvenile accomplice. (references)

Worker Rights

Cote d'Ivoire

In June seven children from Burkina Faso, between the ages of 14 and 20, were arrested as they traveled with their escort to work on a 10-acre pineapple plantation belonging to a man from Burkina Faso. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Bulgarian 

до един, до последния човек. (various references)

Czech

do jednoho. (various references)

Finnish

yhtenä miehenä. (various references)

German

bis auf den letzten Mann. (various references)

Greek 

μέχρι του τελευταίου άνδρα. (various references)

Hebrew 

ע�" �"אש �"אחרון. (various references)

Hungarian

utolsó emberig. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

肌�'許す (to surrender one's chastity to a man). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

は� �'ゆるす (to surrender one's chastity to a man). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay aay anmay

Romanian

pânã la ultimul. (various references)

Russian 

до последнего человека. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ljudski (decent, human, humanly, kind, man: to a man). (various references)

Spanish

hasta el último hombre. (various references)

Swedish

mangrant (all). (various references)

Turkish

son kişiye kadar, herkes (all, all and sundry, all hands, every damned one, every man jack, every one, everybody, everyone, one and all, people, the whole caboodle). (various references)

Ukrainian

усі до жодного, одностайно (at one, solid, with one accord). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: atman, manat, manta, toman.

-2 letters: anoa, anta, atma, atom, mana, mano, moan, moat, noma, nota.

-3 letters: ama, ana, ant, man, mat, moa, mon, mot, nam, nom, not, oat, tam, tan, tao, tom, ton.

-4 letters: aa, am, an, at, ma, mo, na, no, om, on, ta, to.

+1 letter: anatomy, animato, automan, boatman.

+2 letters: anatomic, animator, antiatom, antifoam, boatsman, emanator, manatoid, mandator, marathon, martagon, matronal, metazoan, xanthoma.

+3 letters: abominate, adenomata, amazonite, ammoniate, amyotonia, anatomies, anatomise, anatomist, anatomize, angiomata, animation, animators, antiatoms, antimacho, antiwoman, atonalism, automaton, catamount, combatant, damnation, damnatory, emanation, emanators, entamoeba, inamorata, laminator, malathion, mandators, mandatory, marathons, martagons, metazoans, montadale, neuromata, palmation, paramount, patrolman, xanthomas.