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one and all

one and all

23 2.8
All people without exception
  • idiom
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  • Welcome one and all to A Late Show.
  • Welcome, one and all
  • Thanks, one and all
  • Greetings, one and all

Welcome one and all to A Late Show.

Examples

  • Our heartfelt thanks to one and all.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • Good afternoon and welcome, travelers, one and all.

    What Happens Later (2023)

  • Welcome, one and all to A Late Show.

  • Welcome one and all, ladies, gentlemen and everyone in between.

  • Well, welcome home, one and all.

    Antebellum (2020)

  • Good evening, one and all.

    Dirty Dancing (2017)

  • Good morning, one and all.

    One Eight Seven (1997)

  • Merry, merry Christmas to one and all.

    The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)

  • "Greetings, one and all!" she yipped with a cheery swish of her bushy tail.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Welcome, one and all, to the annual community festival.

Synonyms

everyone
vsone and all
∞ 1.0

All the people in a group

focuses more on including all people with no exceptions
everybody
vsone and all
∞ 1.0

All the people in a group or situation

is more formal and stresses complete inclusion without exception
to a man
vsone and all
3 6.2

To say that every single person in a group is included

stresses collective inclusion of all people without exception

Antonyms

none
∞ 1.0

Not any of a group of people or things

individual
847 3.0

Relating to one person rather than to a group, or showing a person's own style

How Inclusive

one and all
23 2.8
most
1.0
many
9 1.0
some
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

one and all subject case

Morphology

one + and + all

The core meaning 'everyone without exception' is largely recoverable from 'all' (the whole group) with 'one' functioning as an emphatic pairing similar to 'each and every', a cross-linguistically familiar construction. However, the fixed idiomatic pairing and redundant emphatic function of 'one' is not fully predictable from the constituents alone for a B1 learner, so prior exposure may be needed for full confidence.

Etymology

One and all comes from a simple picture of a single person and the whole group shown together as one and all. That's why the phrase means 'everyone' with no one left out.