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leave no stone unturned

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leave no stone unturned
Fig. to search in all possible places. (As if one might search under every rock.) Don't worry. We'll find your stolen car. We'll leave no stone unturned. In searching for a nice place to live, we left no stone unturned.
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leave no stone unturned
to do everything that you can in order to achieve something or to find someone or something Both organizations have vowed to leave no stone unturned in the search for peace.
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leave no stone unturned
to do everything possible in order to achieve or find something Both sides have vowed to leave no stone unturned in the search for peace.
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Irwine 'ull leave no stone unturned with the judge--you may rely upon that, Adam.
There lay the nearest water, and there might be expected some day a rescuing party from her father's empire; for Carthoris knew Thuvan Dihn well enough to know that he would leave no stone unturned until he had tracked down the truth as to his daughter's abduction, and learned all that there might be to learn of her whereabouts.
There was now no doubt about my uncle's enmity; there was no doubt I carried my life in my hand, and he would leave no stone unturned that he might compass my destruction.
 
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