Meaning of by all accounts | Babel Free

Definitions

1. According to all available accounts or reports.
   literally
2. According to everything that people have said.
   idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“[…]and also by all accounts of the surplus which shall from time to time be settled between the new company and the liquidators of the old company[…]”

“The reputation of the elder Baron, although by all accounts justly merited, was destined to be completely thrown into the shade by that of his son[…]”

“[…]that they say, by all accounts, it costs him great trouble to make, by rason that he must fast a long time, and pray by the day, afore he gets himself[…]”

“I sent the particulars to the ship-builder, and by all accounts the news killed him, for he died not long after.”

“The society had apparently been formed the previous year, but as the Cheltenham Spa Railway Society, which sounded rather parochial and unambitious - particularly as (by all accounts) its founders had gathered in a garden shed in the town.”

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