all and sundry
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French said he rejected the “No” campaign’s argument that an “over-speaking Voice might deluge all and sundry in executive government with its opinions.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
He said he had checked with "all and sundry" including Alastair Campbell, then Downing Street press secretary, and "everyone" thought that reference was right.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2021
There’s no road map, just the shrugging sense that this is all perfectly obvious to all and sundry.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2021
When the 24-year-old Svante Myrick was elected five years ago, he gave up his car, decorated the spot with benches and plants and welcomed all and sundry to use it as they pleased.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 20, 2018
As if the expense and trouble were not irksome enough, all and sundry insisted on salting Ned's wound by calling it "the Hand's tourney," as if he were the cause of it.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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