ALL IS FISH THAT COMES TO NET, phr. (colloquial).—All serves the purpose.

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  1670.  RAY, Proverbs [BOHN], 160, s.v.

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  1830.  BUCKSTONE, The Wreck Ashore, ii. 4. We are not on one of our Spanish Islands, where ALL’S FISH THAT COMES TO NET.

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