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walking encyclopedia
noun as in know-it-all
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noun as in learned person
noun as in man of letters
Example Sentences
I found her most intelligent and so far as my career on and off the stage was concerned she was a walking encyclopedia.
Blind Tom's memory was a blank on most subjects, but he was a walking encyclopedia on music.
He knew precisely what she would say; Ann was a kind of walking encyclopedia of the conventions.
As a "professor" I always felt myself a sham, with its chief duties of being a walking encyclopedia of erudition.
In fact I was a veritable walking-encyclopedia filled with a mass of information, most of which was of no earthly account.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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