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Idioms  

1. Even, more so, as in Painting the room white will make it all the lighter , or They liked her all the better for not pretending , or You don't care for dessert? Good, all the more for us . Used to underscore a comparison, this idiom was used by Shakespeare in As You Like It (1:2): “All the better; we shall be the more marketable.” [Late 1500s] For a synonym, see so much the .

2. The entire amount of, as in These cousins were all the family he had . In this usage all the is short for all of the . [Ninth century a.d. ]

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"If Nigel Farage wants to apologise for all the times that he's put other people in danger then I will be happy to make an apology," Polanski added.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Up until then, managers had been reliant on the restaurant’s desktop systems, already overloaded with running all the back office restaurant operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

And 10 days earlier, the program moved into its new, state-of-the-art football facility, with all the amenities anyone could ask for.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

It would simply require the punishment to answer to the crime, which is all the Eighth Amendment has ever asked of anyone.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

“Nah, he does that stuff by himself. He doesn’t need me. In fact, he makes all the snacks around here. That’s the deal, right, Paul?”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold