whole wide world

English

Noun

the whole wide world

1. (emphatic) The entire world; everybody, everywhere.
   • 1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel:

     How could one doubt these things, when Pope and priest and scholar and King were all united in believing them, with no single voice of question in the whole wide world?

   • 2014, Lee Child, Personal, page 386:

     No one in the whole wide world is going to give a shit. Not one single person. And they won't even know anyway. Tomorrow you'll be in Syria or Egypt or Guantanamo Bay, even. We do things differently now.

Translations

entire world

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 全世界 (zh) (quánshìjiè)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: koko maailma
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бије̑лӣ свије̑т m, бе̑лӣ све̑т m

  Roman: bijȇlī svijȇt m, bȇlī svȇt m

• Portuguese: mundo inteiro
• Spanish: mundo mundial

Further reading

• “in the whole wide world” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “in the whole wide world”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.