TO A MAN

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does to a man mean? 

• TO A MAN (adverb)
  The adverb TO A MAN has 1 sense:

1. without exception

  Familiarity information: TO A MAN used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TO A MAN (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without exception

Context example:

voted for unionization to a man

 Context examples 

He had not imagined that a woman would dare to speak so to a man.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It would be likely to recur to a man in a delirium.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I could do very well without you, if you were married to a man of such good estate as Mr. Crawford.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Elinor sighed over the fancied necessity of this; but to a man and a soldier she presumed not to censure it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I despised them, to a man.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But if a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“He hath good power of hatred. Couldst see by his cheek and eye that he is as bitter as verjuice. I warm to a man who hath some gall in his liver.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the whole, however, the betting was in favour of Wilson, for Bristol and the west country stood by him to a man, whilst London opinion was divided.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Do you think that could be anything to a man who has struck down seven at one blow?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked feet.

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