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a man for all seasons

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a man for all seasons  (slightly formal)
a man who is very successful in many different types of activity
Usage notes: This is the title of a play about Sir Thomas More.
He's chairman of a large chemicals company as well as a successful painter - really a man for all seasons.
See also: man, season


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The evidence, as illustrated in the movie A Man for All Seasons (Sony Pictures), is not encouraging.
Recall the scene in A Man For All Seasons, in which the shrewd Thomas More, locked in the Tower, says to Mice: "If they'd open a crack that wide (between finger and thumb) I'd be through it.
As Thomas More said to his daughter in A Man for All Seasons, as he was trying to explain why he was being so stubborn: "Finally, Meg, it's not a matter of reason; finally, it's a matter of love.
 
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