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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all told

But, all told, Goldman said its “base case is for U.S. equities to generate positive returns on net through year-end.”

From MarketWatch ● May 27, 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

Hodges, Kentucky’s governor, the county’s attorney and a federal judge all told Davis that she was legally required to give a marriage license to same-sex couples who applied for one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025

Some of it was pedestrian: He released around 130 albums, all told, and not everything can be a masterpiece.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

“We all told stuff,” I said to comfort him.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter