Idiom Breakdown

one and all

English coordinated pairsEnglish plural pronounsEnglish pronounsEnglish third person pronouns

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Definition

The entire set of persons or things within a given domain, considered both as separate individuals and collectively.

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"Therefore my friends, stand to it one and all, refuse this filthy trash."
"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."
"[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."
"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."

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