everybody and their dog
The whole menagerie
Everybody and their dog means absolutely everyone, with humorous exaggeration suggesting even pets are included: Everybody and their dog showed up to the free concert.
The phrase emphasizes how common or widespread something is, often with mild exasperation at overcrowding or bandwagon behavior: Everybody and their dog is starting a podcast these days.
- ubiquitousPresent in all places
- crowdLarge public gathering
- a dime a dozenAbundant and unremarkable
- common as muckThoroughly unexceptional, lowly
- zeitgeistEra's dominant mentality
tongue-in-cheek · widespread · cliché · old chestnut · public · analogy · people · man on the street · universal · cheeky · lighthearted · colloquial · slangy · exaggeration · whimsical · all · hyperbole · epitome
quantity/inclusiveness
everybody and their dognobody
Inconsequential person
no one · not a soul · a handful · few and far between · not many