idiom
all or nothing
AWL or NUH-thing
ɔːl ər ˈnʌθɪŋListen
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Syllable breakdown
allornothing
Dictionary meaning
a situation with no middle ground; one must either commit fully and succeed or fail completely with no partial outcome; describing a high-stakes approach in which total success and total failure are the only possible results
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