nook and cranny, every

1. Everywhere, as in I've searched for it in every nook and cranny, and I still can't find it. This metaphoric idiom pairs nook, which has meant “an out-of-the-way corner” since the mid-1300s, with cranny, which has meant “a crack or crevice” since about 1440. Neither noun is heard much other than in this idiom.

2. see nook and cranny.

Example Sentences

“There is no excuse that West Virginia - every nook and cranny, every person - if they’ve got electricity in their house, by God they can get internet in their house, too.”

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“There is no excuse that West Virginia — every nook and cranny, every person — if they’ve got electricity in their house, by God they can get internet in their house, too.”

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“Every little nook and cranny, every little joint on the East Side, every neighborhood bar, that whole subculture, he loved it all,” she said.

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In an early moment of their lovemaking, he remembers: “It wasn’t until we were in bed and I was rummaging and rootling around her body, into every nook and cranny, every overexamined and underexamined part of her, that, crouched above, I swept back her hair and discovered her ears.”

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We knew every nook and cranny, every smell, every noise.

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