LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leave no stone unturned mean? 

• LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED (verb)
  The verb LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED has 1 sense:

1. search thoroughly and exhaustively

  Familiarity information: LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Search thoroughly and exhaustively

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The police left no stone unturned in looking for the President's murderer

Hypernyms (to "leave no stone unturned" is one way to...):

look for; search; seek (try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

I beg you to leave no stone unturned to bring him safely back.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“The Inspector here has done all that could possibly be suggested, but I wish to leave no stone unturned in trying to avenge poor Straker and in recovering my horse.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We mean to leave no stone unturned to carry out our intent.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Leave no stone unturned!

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Being very anxious to leave no stone unturned, I waited until Mr. Spenlow came in, and then described what had passed; giving him to understand that I was not hopeless of his being able to soften the adamantine Jorkins, if he would undertake the task.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)