all and sundry

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Pronoun

all and sundry

1. (collectively) All; everyone.

   All and sundry are being driven into the wintry cold.

   • 1581, Alexander Henderson, Archibald Johnston, National Covenant of the Church of Scotland:

     And decerns and declares all and sundry, who either gainsay the word of the evangel [...] to be no members of the said kirk within this realm, and true religion presently professed, so long as they keep themselves so divided from the society of Christ's body.

   • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

     Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.

   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 49”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

     From morning till night you saw her sitting on a low chair in the kitchen, surrounded by a Chinese cook and two or three native girls, giving her orders, chatting sociably with all and sundry, and tasting the savoury messes she devised.

   • 2021 April 28, Marcus Bradshaw, “Why do Czechs say 'ahoj'? An oddly nautical greeting for a landlocked country”, in Expats.cz‎^[1]:

     Visit any Czech river during the summer, and you will find flotillas of rafters and canoeists, gleefully calling “ahoj!” to all and sundry.

2. (separately) Each one.

Synonyms

• one and all

Translations

all; everyone

• Arabic: الكل و يزيد
• Bulgarian: всеки и всички (vseki i vsički)
• Catalan: tots i cada un, tothom (ca), tot el món
• Danish: alle och enhver, Gud og hvermand
• Dutch: Jan en alleman (nl)
• Finnish: kaikki (fi), jokainen (fi), joka iikka (fi)
• French: tout le monde (fr), tout un chacun (fr), tous sans exception, sur tous les toits
• German: Hinz und Kunz (de), jeder Dahergelaufene, jedermann (de), alle (de)
• Greek: όλοι ανεξαιρέτως (óloi anexairétos)
• Hungarian: boldog-boldogtalan (hu), fű-fa (hu), mindenki (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: alle og enhver, Gud og hvermann

• Polish: (wszystkie) i bez wyjątku, wszem wobec i każdemu z osobna (dative only)
• Russian: все и ка́ждый (vse i káždyj)
• Spanish: propios y extraños, todo el mundo (es), los cuatro vientos
• Swedish: alla och envar

each one

• Bulgarian: всеки един (vseki edin)
• Catalan: cada un
• Danish: hver og en
• Finnish: jokainen (fi)
• French: tous (fr)
• Greek: εκάτερος (el) m (ekáteros), κάθε ένας m (káthe énas)
• Hungarian: ki-ki (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: alle (no), alle især

• Polish: (wszystkie) i bez wyjątku
• Russian: все и ка́ждый в отде́льности (vse i káždyj v otdélʹnosti)
• Swedish: var och en (sv)

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• Italian: ^{(please verify)} tutti quanti