for all

Idioms  

1. Also, for all that . In spite of, notwithstanding. For example, For all her protests she still loved the attention , or He's too old for the part but he did a good job for all that . [Early 1300s]

2. . So far as one knows; also, one doesn't really care or know. These phrases are employed like a negative. For example, He can buy ten houses for all I care , meaning one doesn't care at all, or For all I know she's gone to China , meaning one doesn't really know where she is. [Mid-1700s]

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Example Sentences

Even Imhotep, for all his work on the early pyramids, seems to have inspired only small figurines, and only when he became a deity.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

The median payout ratio for all dividend paying stocks in the S&P 500 is around 37%, according to FactSet.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

Claude Code pushed Anthropic to an over $30 billion revenue run-rate in April, surpassing what Rao had once projected for all of fiscal 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

“That’s a blow for all of us who make auteur cinema,” Martel says with a laugh.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

“That would only bring trouble for all of us. And, besides, who knows what he is running from?”

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff