How to Use all things to all people/men in a Sentence

all things to all people/men

noun phrase

• Own your space and do not try to be all things to all people.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2021
• There are politicians who want to be all things to all people.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2021
• That could put less pressure on one piece of work to be all things to all people.
  — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
• Is there one place in the sphere of social media that’s all things to all people?
  — J. Clara Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2023
• The boat show doesn't try to be all things to all people, said show manager Ben Nielsen.
  — Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2023
• The goal, as The Nation’s John Nichols observed last week, is to somehow be all things to all people.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 22 June 2022
• The government’s job is not to provide all things to all people.
  — John Sharp | [e-mail], al, 11 Sep. 2023
• Or just another a stealthy pol trying to be all things to all people?
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
• Businesses should never try to be all things to all people.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2021
• Brands that try to be all things to all people need to have very deep pockets when buyers are more demanding.
  — Richard Cook, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
• Trying to be all things to all people is usually a recipe for failure.
  — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
• Outside Business Journal Try to be all things to all people, and end up pleasing none.
  — Outside Online, 8 Dec. 2017
• You might be tempted to spread yourself thin right now, but being all things to all people just isn't possible.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2021
• The institution could grow and become all things to all people because it was intertwined with the state.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
• But that feeling — of guilt, of trying to be all things to all people while forging ahead with your career — is something that never goes away.
  — Mika Brzezinski, NBC News, 21 Apr. 2021
• At the same time, Bed Bath & Beyond has been faulted by customers and analysts alike for trying to be all things to all people buying home goods.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
• Companies, however, can rarely be all things to all people.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 2 Feb. 2022
• But the scramble to make Richter Tavern all things to all people has left it trapped in its own overproduced movie, flickering prettily against a brick wall.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Jan. 2022
• No better example exists of Mitchell’s paintings’ ability to be all things to all people than Sans Neige (1969).
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
• In its never-ending quest to be all things to all people, Netflix is continuing to build out a sizeable stack of horror content.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 1 July 2021
• All of these qualities are important but no one institution can be all things to all people.
  — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2020
• The broadcast networks have always sought to be all things to all people, but that’s an almost impossible task in our fragmented marketplace.
  — Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• Your female relatives in their 30s feel pressure to be all things to all people (their children, parents, partners, supervisors).
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• Your female relatives in their 30s feel personal pressure to be all things to all people (their children, parents, partners, supervisors).
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2021
• Espen Øino, who also designed Wanderlust’s predecessor Bold, created the yacht’s key design feature, a 4,300-sq. ft. hangar that becomes all things to all people.
  — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 24 Mar. 2023
• The unfortunate plight of anyone who makes commercial art for a fractured and marginalized community is that our creations are expected to somehow be all things to all people within that community.
  — Camille Perri, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024