Exhaust all possibilities

Try everything.

CJ

Thanks CJ.

By the way, I do have a follow-up question. Does the phrase "exhaust all possibilities (try everything)" always suggest the trials with at least one positive output?

Isabelle

ILEDoes the phrase "exhaust all possibilities (try everything)" always suggest the trials with at least one positive output?

I assume you mean "result" not "output." The answer is no. It's frequently the case that all possibilities are tried without achieving success.

ILEDoes the phrase "exhaust all possibilities (try everything)" always suggest the trials with at least one positive output?

No. It usually suggests total failure of all trials.

We looked everywhere for the lost keys. We thought of every possible way we could have lost them. We exhausted all the possibilities. (We still have not found the keys.)

I understand "a possibility" in this case to be something you could try, not necessarily something which has a [known] possibility of working.

That is, it's okay to try something which most people consider impossible as a solution.

Many thanks, MalRey and CJ. Now I understand it pretty well. Thanks again.

@Avangi, you made me smile because my previous thought revolved around the word "possibility" because it's always relate to something with certain fixed value of probability but not zero (to my opinion, of course.). Nonetheless, I like this: "it's okay to try something which most people consider impossible as a sol

You have tried every possible solution and have no other ideas on what to do