What is "all and some"

Some \Some\ (s[u^]m), a. [OE. som, sum, AS. sum; akin to OS., OFries., & OHG. sum, OD. som, D. sommig, Icel. sumr, Dan. somme (pl.), Sw. somlige (pl.), Goth. sums, and E. same.

1. Consisting of a greater or less portion or sum; composed of a quantity or number which is not stated; -- used to express an indefinite quantity or number; as, some wine; some water; some persons. Used also pronominally; as, I have some.

   Some theoretical writers allege that there was a time when there was no such thing as society.
   --Blackstone.

2. A certain; one; -- indicating a person, thing, event, etc., as not known individually, or designated more specifically; as, some man, that is, some one man. ``Some brighter clime.''
   --Mrs. Barbauld.

   Some man praiseth his neighbor by a wicked intent.
   --Chaucer.

   Most gentlemen of property, at some period or other of their lives, are ambitious of representing their county in Parliament.
   --Blackstone.

3. Not much; a little; moderate; as, the censure was to some extent just.

4. About; near; more or less; -- used commonly with numerals, but formerly also with a singular substantive of time or distance; as, a village of some eighty houses; some two or three persons; some hour hence.
   --Shak.

   The number slain on the rebel's part were some two thousand.
   --Bacon.

5. Considerable in number or quantity. ``Bore us some leagues to sea.''
   --Shak.

   On its outer point, some miles away. The lighthouse lifts its massive masonry.
   --Longfellow.

6. Certain; those of one part or portion; -- in distinction from other or others; as, some men believe one thing, and others another.

   Some [seeds] fell among thorns; . . . but other fell into good ground.
   --Matt. xiii. 7, 8.

7. A part; a portion; -- used pronominally, and followed sometimes by of; as, some of our provisions.

   Your edicts some reclaim from sins, But most your life and blest example wins.
   --Dryden.

   All and some, one and all. See under All, adv. [Obs.]

   Note: The illiterate in the United States and Scotland often use some as an adverb, instead of somewhat, or an equivalent expression; as, I am some tired; he is some better; it rains some, etc.

   Some . . . some, one part . . . another part; these . . . those; -- used distributively.

   Some to the shores do fly, Some to the woods, or whither fear advised.
   --Daniel.

   Note: Formerly used also of single persons or things: this one . . . that one; one . . . another.

   Some in his bed, some in the deep sea.
   --Chaucer.

All \All\, adv.

1. Wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement. ``And cheeks all pale.''
   --Byron.

   Note: In the ancient phrases, all too dear, all too much, all so long, etc., this word retains its appropriate sense or becomes intensive.

2. Even; just. (Often a mere intensive adjunct.) [Obs. or Poet.] All as his straying flock he fed. --Spenser. A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined. --Gay. All to, or All-to. In such phrases as ``all to rent,'' ``all to break,'' ``all-to frozen,'' etc., which are of frequent occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to have commonly been regarded as forming a compound adverb, equivalent in meaning to entirely, completely, altogether. But the sense of entireness lies wholly in the word all (as it does in ``all forlorn,'' and similar expressions), and the to properly belongs to the following word, being a kind of intensive prefix (orig. meaning asunder and answering to the LG. ter-, HG. zer-). It is frequently to be met with in old books, used without the all. Thus Wyclif says, ``The vail of the temple was to rent:'' and of Judas, ``He was hanged and to-burst the middle:'' i. e., burst in two, or asunder. All along. See under Along. All and some, individually and collectively, one and all. [Obs.] ``Displeased all and some.'' --Fairfax. All but.

   1. Scarcely; not even. [Obs.]
      --Shak.

   2. Almost; nearly. ``The fine arts were all but proscribed.''
      --Macaulay.

      All hollow, entirely, completely; as, to beat any one all hollow. [Low]

      All one, the same thing in effect; that is, wholly the same thing.

      All over, over the whole extent; thoroughly; wholly; as, she is her mother all over. [Colloq.]

      All the better, wholly the better; that is, better by the whole difference.

      All the same, nevertheless. ``There they [certain phenomena] remain rooted all the same, whether we recognize them or not.''
      --J. C. Shairp. ``But Rugby is a very nice place all the same.''
      --T. Arnold. -- See also under All, n.

pron. (context obsolete idiomatic English) one and all