all over with
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Season all over with 2 tablespoons of salt and refrigerate, uncovered, overnight.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2023
The parable concludes on a nakedly nihilistic note: “When it is all over with the human intellect, nothing will have happened,” Nietzsche observes.
From Slate • Aug. 5, 2023
Season the chicken all over with salt and pepper.
From Washington Times • May 8, 2023
But first, to bake them so that their skins crisp and the insides dehydrate even more, wash and dry the skin well and poke the potato all over with a fork.
From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2023
Rab had gone into one of the many stalls and backed out a tall, slender horse, so pale he was almost white, but flecked all over with tiny brown marks.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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