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all that en · ADJ

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  1. (US, dated, not-comparable, slang) Of especially good quality; particularly excellent.
    • My muffin top is all that / whole-grain, low-fat / I know you want a piece of that / but I'm just here to dance / […] / So back up offa me / You're weirding me out 2006, Robert Carlock, “Jack-Tor”, in 30 Rock, season 1, episode 5:
    • ... due to the fact that the operators on the third shift at Kennedy were not all that—you know, they weren't the A Team—they had gotten themselves in a sequence where they dropped power on the vehicle. 2000, John Aaron, Johnson Space Center Oral History Project:

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all that and a bag of chips

all that en · ADV

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  1. (idiomatic, in negative constructions) Very.
    • We do not have all that much time to finish.
    • By now, I hope that you are getting the message that life really isn't all that complicated. 2023 March 8, James R. Schmalenberg, Life Really Isn’t All That Complicated: But You Do Have To Think, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 13:

all that en · NOUN

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  1. (uncountable) That and everything similar; all of that kind of thing; and so on; et cetera.
    • Near-synonyms: and all that, and that, and all, and stuff
    • He has been all among the worshippers of Fire in Persia and has seen Persepolis and all that. 1809, Lord Byron, letter (to Henry Drury), 25 Jun 1809
    • Snuff, or the Fan, supply each Pauſe of Chat, With ſinging, laughing, ogling, and all that. 1714, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-Comical Poem. In Five Canto's. [sic], Second Edition, London: Bernard Lintott, Canto III, p. 20

Deriveds

and all that · all that said

Synonyms

and all · all that jazz · and all that · and stuff · and that

Translations (3)

pl i tym podobne (all of that kind of thing) · pl i tak dalej (all of that kind of thing) · eo ĉio tio (all of that kind of thing)

all that en · PRON

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  1. The exact amount, quantity, or level referred to.
    • She's not as smart as all that.