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alternative informal regional an all · alternative informal regional n'all · alternative informal regional anaw

1. idiomaticnot comparableIncluding every object, attribute, or process associated with preceding item or series of items.

   He ate the whole fish, bones and all.

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   The turtles saw them [Portuguese men-of-war], approached them from the front, then shut their eyes so they were completely carapaced and ate them filaments and all.

   1952 September 1, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 36

   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.

   1995 August 21, “Pros and Cons of the Balanced Budget Amendment”, in Ind_Limbaugh

   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.

   1998 May 15, Barry Bearak, “Hailing Danger; Behind the Wheel: Long Hours and Hard Feelings”, in New York Times

   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.

   2008 September 16, Ken Hoffman, “An oak tree is no longer mighty”, in Houston Chronicle, page STAR 1

2. idiomaticinformalnot comparableUsed to suggest certain unstated relevant implications of what has been stated.

   What with you saying he was sick and all, I figured neither of you were coming.

   Synonyms: and all that, and that, and stuff, and so on, et cetera

3. Northern EnglandScotlandnot comparableUsed to add emphasis.

   He starts yelling and we come running to help, but a fat load of thanks we get and all!

4. UKinformalnot comparableAs well; in addition.

   I'll have some of the red ones, some green ones, and them yellow ones and all.

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   “You leave my son alone!” The woman turned her head slowly towards him. When her eyes met his, she said, “Gilbert, you are forgetting something. Frank is my son and all.”

   2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN