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“One and all.” (Old English, ealle œt somme, all at once, altogether.)
“Now stop your noses, readers, all and some.”
Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.