to a man

介词短语
中文释义
英 /tuː‿ə ˈmæn/    美 /tuː‿ə ˈmæn/

英文释义

介词短语
  1. Including every person; without exception; unanimously.
    — There is hardly a man in the world, one would think so ignorant, as not to know that the ordinary quack-doctors, who publish their great abilities in little brown billets, distributed to all who pass by, are to a man impostors and murderers; […]

词源

From to (“indicating a limit reached”) + a + man (“adult male human; human regardless of gender or sex”), indicating that something reaches the extent of every individual person.
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