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Phrase(s): for all intents and purposes
Cliché seeming as if; looking as if. • Tom stood there, looking, for all intents and purposes, as if he could strangle Sally, but, being the gentleman that he is, he just glowered. • Mary: Is the car washed now? John: For all intents and purposes, yes, but I didn’t dry it yet.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs