all there en · ADJ
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Meanings
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(idiomatic) Mentally competent; not absent-minded or insane.
A suspicion that “he was not all there,” and therefore “one of God’s bairns,” had insured him, during his long orphanage, the food, and clothes, and shelter, necessary for life; but no one had given him love.
1885, Amelia E. Barr, chapter 1, in Jan Vedder's Wife:[S]he smiled at me in a such a silly way, I thought to wonder if she was all there.
2011, Julie Keith, The Devil Out There, Part 1 (Google preview)His submission is that he is of Mongolian extraction and irresponsible for his actions. Not all there, in fact.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:I don't think he's all there...
I think he's not all there...
She's pretty on the ball ... she's definitely all there.
Is he all there?
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all, there.
Translations (11)
ru не все до́ма /lit: not everyone at home/ (negative form, "not all there": mentally incompetent) · fr bête à pleurer (negative form, "not all there": mentally incompetent) · kmr temam (positive form, "all there": mentally competent) · fr beubeu (negative form, "not all there": mentally incompetent) · fr imbécile (negative form, "not all there": mentally incompetent) · is ekki með öllum mjalla (negative form, "not all there": mentally incompetent) · kmr netemam (negative form, "not all there": mentally incompetent) · kmr biaqil (positive form, "all there": mentally competent) · fr bête à bouffer du foin (negative form, "not all there": mentally incompetent) · pl nie mieć wszystkich w domu (negative form, "not all there": mentally incompetent) · pl mieć wszystkich w domu (positive form, "all there": mentally competent)