carry all before one
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[edit]Verb
[edit]carry all before one (third-person singular simple present carries all before one, present participle carrying all before one, simple past and past participle carried all before one)
- To overcome all obstacles; to have uninterrupted success.
- 2019 June 10, Heather Stewart, “Gove reboots Tory leadership bid with attack on Johnson”, in The Guardian[1]:
- “I will do for this country what I did for London where we were able to lift the poor and the needy in our society while also sticking up for the wealth creators. If we can restore this basic philosophy we will carry all before us,” he said.