everyone and their grandma
The whole world
Everyone and their grandma means absolutely everybody—an emphatic way of saying something is extremely common or widespread.
The expression suggests that even grandmothers, who might seem unlikely participants, are involved: Everyone and their grandma has a podcast now.
The variant everyone and their mother works the same way.
- bandwagonSurging popular cause
- jumped on the bandwagonAdopted a popular trend
- all-inclusiveCovering every element
- blanket statementAssertion applied universally
- communityCollective of connected people
exaggeration · the whole nine yards · tongue-in-cheek · colloquialism · crowd · overstatement · vernacular · universal · everybody · the masses · whimsicality · regionalism · common parlance · word on the street · generalization · playful language · figure of speech · whole shebang
everyone and their grandmanobody
Inconsequential person
no one · not a soul · a handful · few and far between · none
everyone, theirs, grandma, grandmother, mother, grandmotherly, motherly, motherhood, mothers