by all accounts

Idioms  

1. Also, according to all accounts. From all reports available, from what everyone is saying. For example, By all accounts the party was a great success, or They spent a fortune on their cruise, according to all accounts. These phrases rely on account in the sense of “a particular report or description of some event.” [Late 1700s]

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by all accounts

And, by all accounts, Graham was neither ambitious nor a politician until her brother’s sudden death in July.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

Broadway, top-heavy with musical parodies and attention-grabbing revivals, is having a strange season by all accounts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

His relationship with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will be crucial to pulling this transition off, and by all accounts they get along well.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

The two-week truce is by all accounts fragile, and there is little evidence that the critical Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of the world’s oil typically passes, has reopened.

From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026

Although Lavoisier himself was by all accounts mild and fair-minded, the company he worked for was neither.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson