all there
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5.8
- idiom
:
cuerdo
- During the reunion, it felt great to see everyone all there, enjoying each other's company.
And these kinds of sensory cues are all there in cooked food.
- And these kinds of sensory cues are all there in cooked food.
- At some point you need all of them, and those ingredients are all there in hydrothermal vents.
- Cardio, yoga, Pilates, running, it's all there and it's all on your schedule.
- But when you listen to him talk, your thought goes to he's not all there.
- If you're looking for a reason to quit, they're all there.
Examples
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Indeed, in some vague way, I had the feeling that it was all there for me.
Fiction book (1997) -
My family, Lucas's family, and our friends were all there and we had a blast.
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I need you all there to pull this off.
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We wanted for nothing on that island, and it was all there just for the two of us.
Fiction book (1996) -
But because they were all there believing in me.
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We were all there, watching, emotionally wrought as it happened from the comfort of our living rooms.
Academic text (2014) -
The team was all there for the big presentation, fully prepared and excited.
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For the party, we made sure that all there were invited and everyone could attend.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Complete with nothing missing
Antonyms
How Present
Surface Forms
Morphology
all + there
The basic sense is partly derivable from 'all' (completely) + 'there' (present), so a learner could infer 'completely present' from the constituents. However, the phrase often carries a specific idiomatic/pragmatic sense about mental presence or coherence (and contrasts like 'not all there') that is not fully predictable from the words alone, making it only partially transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
The idiom all there may come from the simple idea of being completely present, with all parts of you there and working. So, if someone is all there, they are 'fully present' and able to think and act clearly.