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 given circle, it carries with it, mutatis mutandis, the same meaning. Cf. All around sports.

1881. James Payn, Grape from a Thorn, ch. xl. 'He's a bad one all round.'

1883. Graphic, August 11, p. 138, col. 2. Foremost still as an 'all-round' cricketer among the gentlemen stands W. G. Grace.

2. Average; see quotation.

1869. Notes on N. W. Prov. India, p. 98. We find an all round rent of so much per acre charged on the cultivation.

All-rounder, subs. (popular). [From all round + er] he who or that which is all round (q.v.); as an all round man; particularly applied, however, to a shirt collar the same height all round the neck and meeting in front. Once fashionable, but little worn now.

1857. A. Trollope, Three Clerks, ch. xxii. But he had bestowed, perhaps, the greatest amount of personal attention on his collar.... Some people may think that an all-rounder is an all-rounder, and that if one is careful to get an all-rounder one has done all that is necessary. But so thought not Macassar Jones.

1860. All the Year Round, No. 42, 369. That particularly demonstrative type of the [collar] species known as the all rounder. [M.]

1865. Lord Strangford, Selection (1869), II., 163. Dressed in full uniform, with high stand-up collar; the modern all rounder not having got so far into Asia. [m.]

1875. Chambers' Journal, No. 586. To present himself in an all rounder hat and coat of formal cut on Sunday.

All Round my Hat, adv. phr. (popular).--1. To feel all round one's hat is to feel queer; out of sorts; all overish.

2. That's all round my hat is synonymous with gammon! Nonsense! See All my eye. A music hall song [1834] had this phrase as a refrain.

3. Spicy as all round my hat, i.e., sensational.

1882. Punch, vol. LXXXII, p. 177, col. 1. 'Arry on a jewry.

Fact is, I have bin on a Jury. New line for yours truly, dear boy, and I 'oped it might be a rare barney, a thing as a chap could enjoy. I am nuts upon Criminal Cases, Perlice News, you know, and all that, And, thinks I, this will be 'tuppence coloured,' and spicy as all round my hat.

Alls, subs.--1. See All nations.

1868. Brewer, Phrase and Fable, s.v. alls, tap-droppings. The refuse of all sorts of spirits drained from the glasses, or spilt in drawing. The mixture is sold in gin-houses at a cheap rate.

2. (artisans').--See Bens.

All's Blue.--See Blue.

All Serene! intj. (popular).--All right. All's well! This phrase is thought to be of Spanish origin, and to be derived from the word serena a countersign used by sentinels in Cuba. The night watchmen in Spain likewise end their proclamation of the hour by 'é sereno!' It is also equivalent to O.K., and a few years since was the burden of one of the senseless street cries, which, every now and again, have a vogue in large cities. Most of these catches originate in music-hall songs. All serene, however, was vulgarly colloquial long before the period in question, as will be seen by the following example:

1857. A. Trollope, Three Clerks, ch. xlv. 'You're all serene, then, Mr. Snape,' said Charley; 'you're in the right bon.'