〜といわず: meaning and usage

How to form it

• noun+といわず+noun+といわず

How it is used

Names two typical examples to mean 'not just A and B but everywhere, all of it', often places, times or parts of the body (「昼といわず夜といわず」). Written and literary. 「といい〜といい」 is used for evaluations instead.

Examples

1. 彼は本といわず時計といわず、手近な物を次々投げつけてきた。

   Books, a clock, whatever—he hurled anything within reach at me, one thing after another.

2. 子どもたちは、顔といわず服といわず泥だらけになって遊んでいた。

   The children were playing, covered in mud from their faces to their clothes.

3. この辺りは、駅前といわず住宅街といわず、新しい店が増えた。

   Around here, new shops have opened everywhere, near the station and in the residential streets alike.