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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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“Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth…is a Goddess who always stays on the tip of her toes all the time, ever ready to turn and run away.”

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

Each of the five judges read all the submitted books, with Beard joking she "occasionally felt daunted as a new box of 30 or so gleaming volumes landed on my doorstep".

From BBC ● 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

But the goal is to forget all the bad things.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold