without exception

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   used to emphasize that the statement you are making is always true and everyone or everything is included

   and, without exception, solitary.

   All accounts to be settled at the end of the day's trading, without exception.

In the movies · 4

• I want every one collected without exception. Yes, sir.Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb1964
• and, without exception, solitary.The Grand Budapest Hotel2014
• All accounts to be settled at the end of the day's trading, without exception.Trading Places1983
• Nonviolence. Always nonviolence, and that's without exception.The Trial of the Chicago 72020
• "Records show, without exception, "that the arrival of the mutated human species in any regionX-Men: First Class2011
• ...and prosecuted as a terrorist without leniency or exception.V for Vendetta2006
• -They're ours. We own them. -Incontestable rights to all patents or inventions derived from any and every submission, without exception.Asteroid City2023

Learn it in full scenes

• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb1964
  • Major Kong's Pep Talk
  • General Turgidson Dodges Calls
  • Mandrake Confronts General Ripper
• V for Vendetta2006
  • V's Opening Monologue
  • V Introduces Himself to Evey
  • Sutler's Cabinet Spins the Explosion

From the same entry

• the exception that proves the rule
• make an exception
• take exception to
• with the exception of

More idioms

• wouldn't be seen dead
• make use of
• with open arms
• on the run
• yes sir
• at expense
• be good friends
• by comparison
• have a part
• have your doubts
• in theory
• make certain