on all counts
English
Etymology
A generalization of the legal phrase "on all counts for when a defendant is found guilty or innocent on every count (charge) in a court case.
Prepositional phrase
on all counts
- In every possible way or in every case.
- 1965, Standard & Poor's Earnings and Ratings Bond Guide, page 2:
- Marketwise, they move with interest rates, and hence provide the maximum safety on all counts.
- 1972, Shakespeare studies - Volume 6, page 182:
- Moreover, the Duke, Lear, and Prospero are all put in positions where they must consider the choice between revenge and mercy; and on all counts the choice is for mercy.
- 1977, Leslie J. DeGroot, Radiation-Associated Thyroid Carcinoma, page 46:
- The WHO classification is satisfactory on all counts.
- September 8 2022, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian:
- Edward VIII, the princess’s favourite uncle, precipitated the monarchy’s most severe constitutional crisis of the 20th century by abdicating the throne in order to marry Wallis Simpson, the twice divorced American regarded as unsuitable on all counts.
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- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all, count.
- 2013, Gary Mercer, Guilty On All Counts:
- “Guilty, on all counts,” the foreman of the jury read.
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