all told

British  

adverb

1. (sentence modifier) taking every one into account; in all

   we were seven all told

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all told Idioms  

1. Added up, in summation, as in The ferry will hold 80 passengers all told, or All told, his proposal makes some good points. This idiom, first recorded in 1850, uses the verb tell in the sense of “count.”

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Example Sentences

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all told

She kept coming back, spending more than 360 hours with them, all told.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Executives at BP and every other oil company all told me they never thought that something like the Deepwater blowout could happen.

From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2026

We all told him he should move out if he and his family couldn’t live with my mom.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2025

We spoke to people who had used the firm and they all told the same story.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025

Still I reckon there’s not above three hundred of them in the Shire all told, and maybe less.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien