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User_gary Posted 19 years ago
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meaning of "as well as anyone"

There's no need to hang back - you can sing as well as anyone.

What "anyone" means here?

Actually I can't understand the sentence "you can sing as well as anyone" because of the parts "as well as anyone".

  

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User_gary There's no need to hang back - you can sing as well as anyone. What "anyone" means here? Actually I can't understand the sentence "you can sing as well as anyone" because of the parts "as well as anyone".

— Philip

  • User_gary There's no need to hang back - you can sing as well as anyone.
  • What "anyone" means here?
  • Actually I can't understand the sentence "you can sing as well as anyone" because of the parts "as well as anyone".
  • You can sing as well as John, Sam, Mary, Barbara --- whomever you can name.
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User_garyThere's no need to hang back - you can sing as well as anyone.

What "anyone" means here?

Actually I can't understand the sentence "you can sing as well as anyone" because of the parts "as well as anyone".


You can sing as well as John, Sam, Mary, Barbara --- whomever you can name.
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It also seems to mean that you sing as well as the worst singer. So, you sing as well as the worst and as well as the best and of course, just as well as the most mediocre singer. So, that kind of statement is ambiguous at best. It is another example of a cliche that is riding the airwaves like so many others that are just blurted by brainless individuals without a clue of how to clearly expre
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