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
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