의미: cranny

cran·ny n. (pl. -nies)

1 갈라진 틈, 깨어진 틈

2 깊숙한 장소, 구석

3 《미·속어》 마리화나
search every (nook and) cranny 샅샅이 뒤지다

nook or cranny 관용구

nook and cranny

Idiom(s): nook and cranny

Theme: HIDING

small, out-of-the-way places or places where something can be hidden. (Usually with every. Fixed order.)
• We looked for the tickets in every nook and cranny. They were lost. There was no doubt.
• The decorator had placed flowers in every nook and cranny.

Every nook and cranny

If you search every nook and cranny, you look everywhere for something.

cranny

cranny
see nook and cranny, every.

nook and cranny, every

nook and cranny, every
Everywhere, as in I've searched for it in every nook and cranny, and I still can't find it. This metaphoric idiom pairs nook, which has meant “an out-of-the-way corner” since the mid-1300s, with cranny, which has meant “a crack or crevice” since about 1440. Neither noun is heard much other than in this idiom.

nook or cranny

Every accessible abode or allotment of something, down to the aboriginal ones. You charge to apple-pie every alcove or breach of this allowance afore your grandmother gets here—it has to be spotless for her! I looked in every alcove or breach of the attic and couldn't acquisition that box anywhere.Learn more: cranny, nook

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More Idioms/Phrases

none none of one's business none of the above none the worse for nonsense nook and cranny, every noose nor Norse north northeast northwest nose