To: 1Old Pro
For all intensive purposes For all intents and purposes.
28 posted on
02/11/2020 12:38:59 PM PST by
Windflier
(Torches and pitchforks ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: Windflier
for all intensive purposes. While people generally use both for all intents and purposes and for all intensive purposes to mean in every practical sense, seeming as if, or virtually/almost completely, the standard form of the idiom is for all intents and purposesThat's how I learnt it.
33 posted on
02/11/2020 12:43:05 PM PST by
1Old Pro
To: Windflier; 1Old Pro
For all intensive purposes
For all intents and purposes.
For all in tents, and porpoises.
To: Windflier
For all in tents and porpoises.
304 posted on
02/11/2020 6:36:16 PM PST by
JPJones
(More Tariffs, less income tax.)
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