every last one
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“If you’ll let me, I’d sure like to give it a try. I believe I can catch those monkeys—every last one of them.”
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I really didn’t mean what I had said to Rowdy because way down deep I was just as scared of those monkeys as he was, but I was still determined to catch every last one of them.
From Literature
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So I just sat there, mad all over, hating monkeys, and more determined than ever to catch every last one of them if it took me until Gabriel blew his horn.
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"I want to thank everyone who keeps fighting to release all political prisoners in Belarus. We must continue until every last one is free," she added in a post on X.
From BBC
Then you and I will sit down over cups of hot coffee and slices of cherry pie, and we will savor every last one of our secrets together.
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