every inch

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every inch (not comparable)

(idiomatic) totally, completely
- 2011 January 22, Ian Hughes, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC‎^[1]:
  Wigan looked every inch a side languishing in the relegation zone and there was never any indication they would arrest a run that had seen them lose all of their previous eight Premier League matches at Arsenal.
The whole (of something).
He knows every inch of the road.
- 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 49:
  The latter two required a long track walk from Whitechapel (after services ended and power was switched off), alongside TfL staff who know every inch of this historic stretch of line.

totally, completely