all told

adverb

1. (sentence modifier) taking every one into account; in all

   we were seven all told

Idioms and Phrases

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.”

Example Sentences

We spoke to people who had used the firm and they all told the same story.

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We all told him he should move out if he and his family couldn’t live with my mom.

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

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Police said the women came from three different parts of the country but all told "very similar stories of harassment and coercive control".

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In what is more of a sprint than a marathon - six games all told - they've already put Denmark on the back foot.

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