All related terms of 'all of'

You use of all to emphasize the words 'first' or ' last ', or a superlative adjective or adverb .

You can use all kinds of to emphasize that there are a great number and variety of particular things or people.

You use best of all to indicate that what you are about to mention is the thing that you prefer or that has most advantages out of all the things you have mentioned.

You use first of all to introduce the first of a number of things that you want to say .

You can use least of all after a negative statement to emphasize that it applies especially to the person or thing mentioned .

You use most of all to indicate that something happens or is true to a greater extent than anything else.

If you say that someone or something is, for example , the best writer of all time , or the most successful film of all time , you mean that they are the best or most successful that there has ever been.

You say worst of all to indicate that what you are about to mention is the most unpleasant or has the most disadvantages out of all the things you are mentioning.

If you refer to all manner of objects or people, you are talking about objects or people of many different kinds.

above all others

You use all in expressions like of all the cheek or of all the luck to emphasize how angry or surprised you are at what someone else has done or said .

excited ; agitated

with each part or aspect consistent with the rest

If something happens all of a sudden , it happens quickly and unexpectedly.

a maid who does all types of housework

If you refer to someone as a jack-of-all-trades , you mean that they are able to do a variety of different jobs. You are also often suggesting that they are not very good at any of these jobs.

unreasonable

something regarded as the biggest , most impressive , or most important of (its kind)

a sexually attractive person, esp a woman

the greatest example of its kind

someone who has many different skills

If you say that something is all part of the game , you are telling someone not to be surprised or upset by something, because it is a normal part of the situation that they are in.

certainly ; of course

the Archbishop of Canterbury

If something with several different parts is all of a piece , each part is consistent with the others. If one thing is of a piece with another, it is consistent with it.

If you say that something is out of all proportion to something else, you think that it is far greater or more serious than it should be.

to admire or love greatly

If someone or something has a particular quality or characteristic of their own , that quality or characteristic is especially theirs, rather than being shared by other things or people of that type.

If something is the be-all and end-all to you, it is the only important thing in your life , or the only important feature of a particular activity .

said to mean that greed is the cause of a particular problem or the cause of society's problems in general

You can add and the rest or all the rest of it to the end of a statement or list when you want to refer in a vague way to other things that are associated with the ones you have already mentioned .

If you say that someone or something has changed beyond recognition or out of all recognition , you mean that person or thing has changed so much that you can no longer recognize them.