Everybody vs Iceberg - What's the difference?
everybody | iceberg |
All people.
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*:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody' s exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
*1998 , (w),
*:When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo) / And everybody havin' a ball (Hah, ho, Yippie Yi Yo)
A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf
(US, slang) An aloof person.
(figuratively, after an adjective) An impending disastrous event whose adverse effects are only beginning to show, in reference to one-tenth of the volume of an iceberg being visible above water.
* 2013 , The Economist, ''
As a pronoun everybody
is all people.As a noun iceberg is
a huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf.everybody
English
Pronoun
(English Pronouns)Usage notes
Everybody'' takes a singular verb: ''Is everybody here?''; ''Everybody has heard of it.Antonyms
* nobody, no one * Logically negates to not everybody .Synonyms
* everyoneDerived terms
* everybody and his cousin * everybody and their brothericeberg
English
(wikipedia iceberg)Noun
(en noun)- The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank .
How Barack Obama can get at least some of his credibility back:
- He has little to lose: at present he will go down in history, alongside George W. Bush, as a skipper who ignored the looming fiscal iceberg .