every inch

1. 1.

   in every way; completely

   “he was every inch a statesman”

Questions about every inch

What does every inch mean?

every inch means "in every way; completely".

Is every inch a common word?

every inch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.