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all there

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  1. Having one's wits about one, mentally competent, as in John may seem absentminded, but believe me, he's all there. This phrase is often used negatively, as not all there, for being without one's full faculties. For example, I wonder about Justin; sometimes it seems as if he's not all there. [Mid-1800s]

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As he himself tells it, when he walked into the locker room after L.A. finally won its first NBA title, in 1972, his thought was “Is that all there is?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

It is called Dump Fruit because that is all there is to it: you just dump everything together.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2026

Or does it just show he's not quite all there but still has that punch power?

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

First of all, there were 600 people that went.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

He was just a mean old goose and that’s all there was to it.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

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