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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
anybody
pronoun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be anybody's guess
▪ It's anybody's guess where he's disappeared to.
▪ And how many days and weeks and years made up a duration was anybody's guess.
▪ Disenfranchised voters are believed to number at least 100,000 - though why the lenders want their business is anybody's guess.
▪ How often, when and where women-only units would see active service is anybody's guess.
▪ It is anybody's guess as to how the sale will fare.
▪ Strangely, what may happen at the taking of the sample itself seems to be anybody's guess.
▪ What the Spice Girls' eight-year-old girl fans make of this is anybody's guess.
▪ Whether the idea will catch on is anybody's guess.
▪ Which came first is anybody's guess, but the two are now working together to make the patient even more ill.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I don't think anybody's going to come.
▪ Is anybody home?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anybody

Anybody \A"ny*bod*y\, n.

  1. Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.

    His Majesty could not keep any secret from anybody.
    --Macaulay.

  2. A person of consideration or standing. [Colloq.]

    All the men belonged exclusively to the mechanical and shopkeeping classes, and there was not a single banker or anybody in the list.
    --Lond. Sat. Rev.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
anybody

c.1300, ani-bodi, from any + body. One-word form is attested by 1826. Phrase anybody's game (or race, etc.) is from 1840.

Wiktionary
anybody

pron. 1 Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person. 2 (context informal English) A person of some consideration or standing.

Wikipedia
Anybody (Movin' On)

"Anybody (Movin' On)" is a song recorded by German band Masterboy. It was the second single from the album Generation of Love and was released in September 1995.

Usage examples of "anybody".

And the Church became absolutely apoplectic if anybody expressed a causal-level intuition of supreme identity with Godheadthe Inquisition would burn Giordano Bruno at the stake and condemn the theses of Meister Eckhart on such grounds.

So he calls up Ernie and me, right here in this hide-out, and says to check on Renz and Alker and grab anybody that tries to follow them.

The note itself would mean nothing to anybody unless that person knew that Alsa wore contact lenses and perhaps not even then, because it was a commonplace thing to find written at the top of an article.

I was astonished at the dexterity of my charming mistress in doing all this without the knowledge of anybody in the house.

Which means that before the audition, anybody connected with the show might have gone in and shot him.

She rose up, without speaking to anybody, and went straight to the tower where Avenant was confined.

Michaelmas, or, at the very least, a bailie, to the end that ye might be chosen delegate, it being an unusual thing for anybody under the degree of a bailie to be chosen thereto?

The hall at Bowmont, with its arbitrary collection of broadswords, incomprehensible tapestries and a weasel which the Basher had stuffed, but without success, was not a place in which anybody lingered.

Basilica, where again I will not attack anybody, but will rather enter the city of Basilica to restore order in the name of the Imperator.

He could wait a long cold time for the Oversoul to persuade anybody but Father to do something as idiotic as leaving Basilica for the desert.

Still Bedell acted more like a sane man than anybody else on the Corianis.

Tea Table-- this latter a great smooth-surfaced mass of rock, with diminishing wine-glass stem, perched some fifty or sixty feet above the river, beside a beflowered and garlanded precipice, and sufficiently like a tea-table to answer for anybody, Devil or Christian.

Here, too, among the thralls and bondmen, sat Bibbs Sheridan, a meek Banquo, wondering how anybody could look at him and eat.

If anybody tries to prosecute Pat for bigamy at this late date, at least one of them will probably spill the beans.

I had a note from Bittle asking me to call after dinner without saying anything to anybody.