one and all en · PRON
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(idiomatic) The entire set of persons or things within a given domain, considered both as separate individuals and collectively.
Later American literary stars like Hemingway, Faulkner, Sinclair Lewis and John Steinbeck, Nobel Prize-winners one 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.
2010 April 24, Tom Wolfe, “Op-Ed Contributor: Faking West, Going East”, in New York Times, retrieved 26 Nov 2013:[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.
1920, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 2, in The Coming of Bill:Therefore my friends, stand to it one and all, refuse this filthy trash.
1724, Jonathan Swift, “Drapier's Letters”, in 1: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.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 99, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
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Translations (8)
es todos y todas (the entire set of persons or things) · ca tots i cada un (the entire set of persons or things) · sv alla och envar (the entire set of persons or things) · pl wszyscy co do jednego (the entire set of persons or things) · ca tothom (the entire set of persons or things) · es todos (the entire set of persons or things) · sv var och en (the entire set of persons or things) · ca tot el món (the entire set of persons or things)