under the sun

1. see under everything but the kitchen sink; nothing new under the sun.

Example Sentences

As the Book of Ecclesiastes tells us, there was nothing new under the sun.

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My tent set up and food safely stored in the provided metal boxes, I went over to the tiny beach and sat on a driftwood log, relaxing under the sun’s warm rays.

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Most economists under the sun criticized the move to fill a nonpartisan government job to compile and release data with, by all accounts, a baffling ding-dong.

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When looking back at his own career, Matthew Tinker has done “pretty much every job under the sun,” which was only possible in a city that consistently had multiple productions running.

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I’d spend hours basking under the sun, popping one lychee after another into my mouth, indulging in their syrupy goodness.

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Related Words

• carnal 
• mundane 
• physical 
• temporal 
• terrestrial 
• worldly