by all accounts
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- idiom
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- Mark was very well respected in his unit and was by all accounts a first-rate soldier.
So here you are you're you've been successful by all accounts.
- So here you are you're you've been successful by all accounts.
- He wasn't the referee, but that game was a really dull nil, nil draw by all accounts.
- He was a master of many things and he was a brilliant man and an honourable man by all accounts.
- I think he sort of slipped out of relevance a little bit, but he's a very good looking guy by all accounts.
- And so Sandler shows up in these games, and by all accounts from people that have played with him, he is a really great pickup basketball player.
- Margie was the first woman to take on this role, and by all accounts she demonstrated enormous tact, discretion, and loyalty along with her great intelligence.
- That's why it's a problem that, you know, Donald Trump, who is by all accounts a malignant narcissist incapable of empathy, is a criminal to his core.
- So we like my family, like by all accounts, we are like doing very, very well.
- He's he's a good guy by all accounts, but his friend Kaya is a big motherfucking tool.
- Despite that Tesla died very unhappy by all accounts, obviously did not know him certainly alone and broke.
- Although Rich by all accounts was gay anyway and he used Francis as a front.
Examples
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Lovely little thing, by all accounts.
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By all accounts, this was a wedding done properly and in an impressive fashion.
Academic text (2007) -
And proud of it by all accounts.
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At least one, by all accounts, was a different and better sort.
Fiction book (2000) -
By all accounts, a brilliant investigator.
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As it turned out, however, the elections by all accounts were fair and untainted.
Academic text (1991) -
Obama, a professed Christian, has by all accounts remained faithful to his wife.
Blog text (2) -
Jane Addams (1860-1935) remains, by all accounts, the most famous and influential social worker this country has produced.
Academic text (2007) -
Patricia Arbuthnot Byron Cockburn (Byron was her first husband's name) was by all accounts a strong, talented woman.
Academic text (1996) -
By all accounts, the event was a huge success, attracting more visitors than expected.
Synonyms
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3.7
As people or the news say
How Subjective
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase can be transparently derived from its parts: 'by' here marks source/authority (as in 'according to'), 'all' means everyone/every report, and 'accounts' means reports or testimony — together yielding 'according to all reports'. This is a common English composition pattern (by + source) with clear cross-linguistic parallels, so a B1 learner who knows the words would likely infer the meaning.
Etymology
By all accounts may come from the old use of accounts to mean 'reports' or 'stories', so imagine many people or reports all saying the same thing. That's why by all accounts means 'according to what everyone says'.