[Idiom] MOST EVERYONE ELSE

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Migg

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Any difference between "most everyone else" and "almost everyone else"?
 

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Except John, almost everyone else was present in the meeting
 

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I'll repeat what susunmoon said, "Wrong: "most everyone else"
Correct: "almost everyone else" Please don't keep posting "checking" on your threads.
 

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'Most everyone else' is common in AE.

4 North American informal almost:
most everyone understood
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(Bhai, as a moderator, can you delete any further checking posts from Migg? It's very irritating.)
 

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Rover_KE;751917 (Bhai said:
checking[/I] posts from Migg? It's very irritating.)
I've deleted that one.
 
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