Definition
Including every object, attribute, or process associated with preceding item or series of items.
Used to suggest certain unstated relevant implications of what has been stated.
In Context
- "He ate the whole fish, bones and all."
- "Now proper French tradition requires that when you eat the ortolan, you drape a napkin over your head and consume the bird in one bite, beak, bones and all."
- "The facts of the accident, however, are too ambiguous to reek of malice or recklessness. And the drivers involved, flaws and all, are hardly demons."
- "We had six large trees ripped from the ground, roots and all. A firefighter told me that the wind hit 110 mph in West U."
- "What with you saying he was sick and all, I figured neither of you were coming."