tutti quanti

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      Etymology

      From Italian tutti quanti.

      Noun

      tutti quanti pl

      1. All, everything, everyone; all that, all of those.
        • 1796, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of my Life and Writing, p. 77:
          his illiberal use of Voltaire, Hume, Buffon, the Abbe Reynal, Dr. Robertson, and tutti quanti can be injurious only to himself.
        • 2010, Tony Judt, New York Review of Books, Blog, 11 Mar 2010:
          I knew my Foucault as well as anyone and was familiar with Firestone, Millett, Brownmiller, Faludi, e tutte quante.

      Italian

      Noun

      tutti quanti m (invariable) (Feminine: tutte quante)

      1. everyone, all and sundry
      2. everything

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      Last modified on 20 May 2013, at 14:22