one and all

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one and all

  1. (idiomatic) The entire set of persons or things within a given domain, considered both as separate individuals and collectively.
    • 1724, Jonathan Swift, “Drapier's Letters”, in 1:
      Therefore my friends, stand to it one and all, refuse this filthy trash.
    • 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:
      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.
    • 1920, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 2, in The Coming of Bill:
      [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.
    • 2010 April 24, Tom Wolfe, “Op-Ed Contributor: Faking West, Going East”, in New York Times, retrieved 26 November 2013:
      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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