12 English expressions with ALL | all talk, all nighter, all out, all along ...

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Today I'm going to be giving you 12 phrases

using the word all.

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Number 1, the be-all and end-all.

The be-all and end-all is the ultimate aim,

the perfect specimen of something or someone.

For example, if I say Cameron Diaz is the be-all

and the end-all,

I'm basically saying that I think she is perfect

in every way.

Number 2, to be all for something

or to be all for doing something.

So to be all for something is to say

that you are a 100% supportive of something

but you are insinuating

that others might not agree.

There might be practical difficulties

or other people might be very anti

whatever you're trying to say.

For example, I am all for banning petrol

and making everybody use wind power on their cars.

(Lucy laughs)

So if you're all for something,

you strongly believe it should be done

and you really agree with it.

I am all for you subscribing to my channel.

I said it,

what can I do?

Number 3, from all walks of life.

Normally you hear people from all walks of life.

If I say there are people from all walks of life

I'm saying there are people

from all levels of society.

They all have different jobs.

They all have different salaries.

They all have different morals.

For example, the gym I go to has people

from all walks of life.

There are members who are plumbers, doctors.

I can't think of any other walks of life.

(Lucy laughs)

Teachers, maybe some royalty,

who knows.

(Lucy sneezes)

The light is making me sneeze.

Number 4, all along.

All along.

We say it altogether.

All along.

It means from the beginning.

If I've known something all along,

I've know it from the beginning.

For example, she'd been planning

to leave him all along.

She'd been planning to leave him

from the very beginning.

Number 5, all the rage.

If something is all the rage it's very,

very popular, very fashionable.

So I could say,

do you remember when thin eyebrows

were all the rage?

So maybe when we're 80 years old we might say,

do you remember when really thick eyebrows

were all the rage?

As we sit there with shaved eyebrows,

I don't know,

that's a random example but all the rage.

The next one,

a free-for-all.

A free-for-all is when loads of different groups

of people are all trying to get something

for themselves and there are no real ways

of controlling it.

It's a chaotic situation.

For example, black Friday

in America is a free-for-all.

There are people going in,

grabbing TVs, fighting,

brawling, it's a free-for-all.

If you're a shop owner a free-for-all

isn't what you want.

Number 7, to go all out.

If you go all out you put all

of your energy and enthusiasm into something.

So for example,

when I host Halloween parties I go all out.

The blood has walls on it.

(Lucy laughs)

The walls have blood on it.

There are skeletons everywhere.

I go all out.

Number 8, to be all talk.

This is actually a short version

of the full phrase,

to be all talk and no action.

But we often just say to be all talk.

If somebody's all talk it means they always talk

about doing something but they never actually do it.

Maybe a particularly flaky friend,

a flake is somebody who always quits

at the last minute and let's you down,

a very flaky friend tells me they're going

to come and help me out before a party.

And I might think to myself she's all talk,

she's never going to actually do it.

Number 9, to pull out all of the stops,

or all the stops.

This means you use all of the resources

or force at your disposal.

For example, the police pulled out all the stops

to find the criminal.

They used every resource,

all of their money,

they would stop at nothing to find that criminal.

I wish that were the case for the person

who stole my dad's van the other day.

However, no stops were pulled out by the police,

not a single one.

Anyway, number 10,

all in all.

This is one my fiance likes to say a lot,

I've just realised that.

I think it's a habit, but anyway.

All in all means on the whole, in general.

For example, all in all it's been a good year.

In general, it's been a good year.

There have been some bad moments

but there have been way more good moments

so in general it's good.

Number 11, something I did a lot at university,

to pull an all nighter.

To pull an all nighter is to stay up all night,

normally working or studying.

For example, I pulled an all nighter

writing this essay and I still got a rubbish grade.

And the last one, number 12,

a know-it-all.

And a know-it-all is somebody who believes,

believes is an important word here,

believes they know everything.

You know those people that just,

they have an answer for everything

and if they're wrong they don't accept it.

I know quite a few know-it-alls.

Or should I say I did know quite a few

because I've got them out my life, whoo,

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Go on, show your little face.

Show your face.

Will, you look lovely.

Come on.

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What are you doing?

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This cup smells like garlic.

It must've been washed with something

that had garlic on it.

I love it.

For example, the gym...

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When I host Halloween parties I go all out,

the blood has walls on it.

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