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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Italian tutti quanti.
Noun
tutti quanti pl
- All, everything, everyone; all that, all of those.
1796, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of my Life and Writing, page 77:his illiberal use of Voltaire, Hume, Buffon, the Abbe Reynal, Dr. Robertson, and tutti quanti can be injurious only to himself.
- 2010, Tony Judt, New York Review of Books, Blog, 11 Mar 2010:
- I knew my Foucault as well as anyone and was familiar with Firestone, Millett, Brownmiller, Faludi, e tutte quante.
Italian
Noun
tutti quanti m (invariable, feminine tutte quante)
- everyone, all and sundry
- everything