And All Meaning

(dialectal) Used to add emphasis.

Example:   He ate the whole fish, bones and all.
1995 8/21, “Pros and Cons of the Balanced Budget Amendment”, Ind_Limbaugh:
  Now proper French tradition requires that when you eat the ortolan, you drape a napkin over your head and consume the bird in one bite, beak, bones and all.
1998 5/15, Barry Bearak, “Hailing Danger; Behind the Wheel: Long Hours and Hard Feelings”, New York Times:
  The facts of the accident, however, are too ambiguous to reek of malice or recklessness. And the drivers involved, flaws and all, are hardly demons.
2008 9/16, Ken Hoffman, “An oak tree is no longer mighty”, Houston Chronicle, page STAR 1:
  We had six large trees ripped from the ground, roots and all. A firefighter told me that the wind hit 110 mph in West U.
  What with you saying he was sick and all, I figured neither of you were coming.
  He starts yelling and we come running to help, but a fat load of thanks we get and all!

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