one and all

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)The entiresetof persons or things within a givendomain, considered both as separateindividualsandcollectively.1724,Jonathan Swift, “Drapier's Letters”, in1:Therefore my friends, stand to itone and all, refuse this filthy trash.1851November 14,Herman Melville, chapter 99, inMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers; London:Richard Bentley,→OCLC:Now this doubloon was of purest, virgin gold[…]and however wanton in their sailor ways,one and all, the mariners revered it as the white whale's talisman.1920,P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 2, inThe Coming of Bill:[M]en of every condition[…]had laid their hearts at her feet.One and all, they had been compelled to pick them up and take them elsewhere.2010April 24,Tom Wolfe, “Op-Ed Contributor: Faking West, Going East”, inNew York Times, retrieved26 November 2013:Later American literary stars like Hemingway, Faulkner, Sinclair Lewis and John Steinbeck, Nobel Prize-winnersone and all, never had more than a spoonful of the great gouts of fame that Twain — and Mrs. Stowe, for that matter — enjoyed everywhere in the world.

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