still and all

Idioms  

1. Nevertheless, all the same, as in But still and all, trekking in Nepal is an expensive undertaking. Although critics believe this idiom is an unnecessarily long form of the adverb still, it has been used since the early 1800s and remains current.

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Example Sentences

Inside, preserved in concrete, the grandstands sat silent and still and all but unchanged.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2020

Most of the others range from very dirty to dirtier still, and all of them are quite funny.

From Time Magazine Archive

At last he stood still and all the creatures whom he had touched came and stood in a wide circle around him.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

And still and all I knew that we were something, that we were a tribe—on one hand, invented, and on the other, no less real.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.”

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston