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Etymology
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Pronunciation
Pronoun
all and sundry
- (collectively) All; everyone.
1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 49”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers , →OCLC:From morning till night you saw her sitting on a low chair in the kitchen, surrounded by a Chinese cook and two or three native girls, giving her orders, chatting sociably with all and sundry, and tasting the savoury messes she devised.
- (separately) Each one.
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all; everyone
- Arabic: الكل و يزيد
- Catalan: tots i cada un, tothom (ca), tot el món
- Danish: alle och enhver, Gud og hvermand
- Dutch: Jan en alleman (nl)
- Finnish: kaikki (fi), jokainen (fi), joka iikka (fi)
- French: tout le monde (fr), tout un chacun (fr), tous sans exception, sur tous les toits
- German: Hinz und Kunz (de), jeder Dahergelaufene, jedermann (de), alle (de)
- Greek: όλοι ανεξαιρέτως (óloi anexairétos)
- Hungarian: boldog-boldogtalan (hu), fű-fa (hu), mindenki (hu)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: alle og enhver, Gud og hvermann
- Polish: (wszystkie) i bez wyjątku, wszem wobec i każdemu z osobna (dative only)
- Russian: все и ка́ждый (vse i káždyj)
- Spanish: (please verify) propios y extraños, todo el mundo (es)
- Swedish: alla och envar
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