all things considered
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3.7
- idiom
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considerándolo todo
- All things considered, it's probably best if I get out here.
So all things considered, the best judge of this, it's you.
- So all things considered, the best judge of this, it's you.
- The research ask them questions like, all things considered, how happy would you say you are?
- It's also a fairly quiet and slow plane, all things considered.
- It seems to be doing OK all things considered.
- So a pretty good outcome all things considered.
- She's she's doing well, all things considered, but it's just a bummer, you know?
- Politics is the art of analyzing the entire situation and charting a course forward, all things considered.
- This is this is the name of a book by Debbie Levy, who is a lawyer but decided, all things considered, she'd rather write children's books.
Examples
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That is not a bad pass, actually, all things considered, pretty happy with how that came out.
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I think that went quite well, all things considered.
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So all things considered, the best judge of this, it's you.
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The research ask them questions like, all things considered, how happy would you say you are?
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It's actually not a bad idea, all things considered.
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The operation went pretty well, all things considered.
Fiction book (1997) -
All things considered, I think he took that quite well.
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All things considered, I think she's doing pretty well.
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You know, Gordy, all things considered, maybe my gift isn't so bad after all.
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All things considered, all things considered, it was a successful event despite the challenges.
Synonyms
189
3.0
In total when you add everything
76
3.2
A way to say you have thought about everything
9
4.1
After thinking about everything, what matters most is clear
1
8.4
After looking at everything, the overall result is clear
When you think about everything together
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
all + thing + considered
The meaning 'taking everything into account' is transparently built from 'all' (the whole), 'things' (matters/items), and 'considered' (taken into account), so a learner who knows the constituents can compose the overall sense. This is a common, compositional evaluative phrase with close equivalents in many languages, making it readily understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
All things considered may come from the image of someone gathering all things, meaning all the facts, onto a table to be considered together. That's why it means 'taking everything into account' or 'after thinking about everything'.