all told

British  

adverb

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

   we were seven all told

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all told Idioms  

1. 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.”

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Example Sentences

But, all told, Goldman said its “base case is for U.S. equities to generate positive returns on net through year-end.”

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

They all told us they had felt exploited and distressed after learning the videos had been posted online.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026

My research, like the HSCA’s, has relied upon the same basic set of facts about who beyond Byers was told what—and when they were told—about the Byers Bounty: three people, all told after the assassination.

From Slate • Dec. 1, 2025

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

There weren’t many Martians left on Mars—one hundred, one hundred and fifty, all told.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury