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walking encyclopedia
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Idioms and Phrases
A very knowledgeable person, as in Ask Rob—he's a walking encyclopedia of military history . A similar expression, a walking dictionary , was used by George Chapman in his poem “Tears of Peace” (c. 1600).Discover More
Example Sentences
I found her most intelligent and so far as my career on and off the stage was concerned she was a walking encyclopedia.
Blind Tom's memory was a blank on most subjects, but he was a walking encyclopedia on music.
He knew precisely what she would say; Ann was a kind of walking encyclopedia of the conventions.
As a "professor" I always felt myself a sham, with its chief duties of being a walking encyclopedia of erudition.
In fact I was a veritable walking-encyclopedia filled with a mass of information, most of which was of no earthly account.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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