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all there

Idioms  

  1. Having one's wits about one, mentally competent, as in John may seem absentminded, but believe me, he's all there. This phrase is often used negatively, as not all there, for being without one's full faculties. For example, I wonder about Justin; sometimes it seems as if he's not all there. [Mid-1800s]

Example Sentences

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It is called Dump Fruit because that is all there is to it: you just dump everything together.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2026

But that’s all there is to them, and to the feature as a whole.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

First of all, there were 600 people that went.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

Most of all, there is a lot of shame and shaming associated with people who go into debt or become overwhelmed by their bills.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 21, 2026

How Flux was all there a moment ago, and slowly, surely, wasn’t.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

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