all standing

English

Adverb

all standing (not comparable)

1. (UK, naval) Brought to a sudden halt.
   • 2008, Robert C. Stem, Destroyer Battles: Epics of Naval Close Combat:

     […] and then with a terrific crash the ship brought up all standing, and we were hurled against the bridge screens by the force of the collision.

2. (UK, naval) Wearing one's clothes, for example while sleeping.
   • 1917, Edward Percy Stebbing, At the Serbian Front in Macedonia, page 77:

     A couple of girls were standing alongside an ambulance drawn up next to the lorry, out of which they had apparently just crawled, having slept all standing, as all had I suppose.

   • 1925, Fitzhugh Green, Our Naval Heritage, page 106:

     No man had aught to cover him save his blankets, in which he slept “all standing,” i.e., with his clothes on.