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when all is said

when all is said is the alternative form of when all is said and done.

Meaning of when all is said and done

Phrase

when all is said and done

  1. (idiomatic) In the end; ultimately.
    • When all is said and done, you will find it is a smaller project than it appears.

Questions about when all is said

What is when all is said the alternative form of?
When all is said is the alternative form of when all is said and done.

Words near when all is said in the dictionary

  1. whemmles
  2. whemmling
  3. when
  4. when Adam was an oakum boy
  5. when Adam was an oakum boy in Chatham Dockyard
  6. when all is said
  7. when all is said and done
  8. when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
  9. when America sneezes, the world catches a cold
  10. when as
  11. when everything is said and done

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Adapted from Wiktionary: when all is said (page history and authors); when all is said and done (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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