all for

1. Completely in favor of something or someone, as in I'm all for eating before we leave, or The players are all for the new soccer coach. This colloquial phrase was first recorded in 1864.

Example Sentences

Toner-Rodgers’s illusory success seems in part thanks to the dynamics he has now upset: an academic culture at MIT where high levels of trust, integrity and rigor are all—for better or worse—assumed.

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The plan calls for the creation of a “humanitarian committee” to oversee an “all for all” exchange of prisoners, detainees, and kidnapped children.

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She left it all for us to decide, which is common, but can make things hard.

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Known most of all for his imposing and magnificent dome on the Florence Cathedral, much of the information surrounding his accomplishments has been speculative and contested.

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Sarah Langshaw said she was all for someone challenging the current leadership of the party, and said Burnham had got a good track record.

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