tutti quanti

English

Alternative forms

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, page 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

Russian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian tutti quanti.

Noun

tutti quanti

  1. everyone
    • 1902, Lenin, Vladimir, Что дѣлать? [What Is to Be Done?]:
      Мы не «экономисты», о нет! Мы только пресмыкаемся так же рабски пред «осязательностью» конкретных результатов, как господа Бернштейны, Прокоповичи, Струве, Р. М. и tutti quanti!
      My ne “ekonomisty”, o net! My tolʹko presmykajemsja tak že rabski pred “osjazatelʹnostʹju” konkretnyx rezulʹtatov, kak gospoda Bernštejny, Prokopoviči, Struve, R. M. i tutti quanti!
      We are not Economists, oh no! We only cringe as slavishly before the “palpableness” of concrete results as do the Bernsteins, the Prokopoviches, the Struves, the R.M.s, and tutti quanti!
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