English

Pronoun

one and all

1. (idiomatic) The entire set of persons or things within a given domain, considered both as separate individuals and collectively.
   • 1724, Jonathan Swift, The Drapier's Letters, Letter I:

     Therefore my friends, stand to it one and all, refuse this filthy trash.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, ch. 99:

     Now this doubloon was of purest, virgin gold . . . and however wanton in their sailor ways, one and all, the mariners revered it as the white whale's talisman.

   • 1920, P. G. Wodehouse, The Coming of Bill, ch. 2:

     [M]en of every condition . . . had laid their hearts at her feet. One and all, they had been compelled to pick them up and take them elsewhere.

   • 2010 April 24, Tom Wolfe, "Op-Ed Contributor: Faking West, Going East," New York Times (retrieved 26 Nov 2013):

     Later American literary stars like Hemingway, Faulkner, Sinclair Lewis and John Steinbeck, Nobel Prize-winners one and all, never had more than a spoonful of the great gouts of fame that Twain — and Mrs. Stowe, for that matter — enjoyed everywhere in the world.

Usage notes

• With reference to people, often used to emphasize the solidarity or common circumstances of all the individuals constituting a group.

Synonyms

• all and sundry