a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot
a unit of measurement for advertising space
advance slowly, as if by inches
"He edged towards the car"
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inch
Ay, every inch a king. [ William Shakespeare, King Lear ]
An inch breaks no square. [ Proverb ]
An inch in a man's nose is much. [ Proverb ]
She cannot leap an inch from a slut. [ Proverb ]
Give him an inch and he'll take an ell. [ Proverb ]
An inch in missing, is as bad as an ell. [ Proverb ]
An inch of a horse is worth a span of a colt. [ Proverb ]
An inch in an hour, is a foot in a day's work. [ Proverb ]
In an hundred ells of contention there is not an inch of love. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Let them take one foot in your house, and they will soon have taken four (give them an inch and they will take an ell). [ La Fontaine ]
A worthless man will always remain worthless, and a little mind will not, by daily intercourse with great minds, become an inch greater. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Nature is sanitive, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love. [ Emerson ]
In my opinion mothers ought to bring up and suckle their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them; but the love of a nurse is spurious and counterfeit, as loving them only for hire. [ Plutarch ]
The world produces for every pint of honey a gallon of gall, for every dram of pleasure a pound of pain, for every inch of mirth an ell of moan; and as the ivy twines around the oak, so does misery and misfortune encompass the happy man. Felicity, pure and unalloyed felicity, is not a plant of earthly growth: her gardens are the skies. [ Robert Burton ]
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