be-all and end-all

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be-all and end-all - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  be-all and end-all
      n 1: the essential factor; the all-important element; the
           supreme aim; "profit is the be-all and end-all of business"
           [syn: be-all and end-all, be all and end all]