all the

The entire amount of, as in These cousins were all the family he had . In this usage all the is short for all of the . [Ninth century a.d. ]
Even, more so, as in Painting the room white will make it all the lighter , or They liked her all the better for not pretending , or You don't care for dessert? Good, all the more for us . Used to underscore a comparison, this idiom was used by Shakespeare in As You Like It (1:2): “All the better; we shall be the more marketable.” [Late 1500s] For a synonym, see so much the .

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I have a rainbow butterfly on my foot that I got to match all the colors in my outfits when I was 16.

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In all, the storm could produce about a quarter-inch of rain in low-lying areas, and as much as a half-inch in the foothills, Lewis said.

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Current Executive Director Steve Toma has received some of the criticism for this move, as has all the members of the executive board.

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Prince Andrew has always denied all the accusations against him.

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I spent about a year writing, and then I got an attack of intellectual honesty which caused me to be delayed by about a year, because I started to realize that actually you can't run a modern industrial society on the basis of individual human beings taking all the decisions and being personally accountable for them.

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