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when all is said and done

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when all is said and done
something that you say when you are about to tell someone the most important fact in a situation. When all is said and done, a child's moral upbringing is the parents' responsibility.
See also: all, done, said

when all is said and done
when everything has been considered. When all is said and done, we can't reduce the number of nurses without lowering the quality of patient care.
Related vocabulary: in the end, at the end of the day, in the final analysis
See also: all, done, said

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Gales have their personalities, and, after all, perhaps it is not strange; for, when all is said and done, they are adversaries whose wiles you must defeat, whose violence you must resist, and yet with whom you must live in the intimacies of nights and days.
As thou hast been his bad angel, so shall I try to be his good angel, and when all is said and done and Norman of Torn swings from the King's gibbet, as I only too well fear he must, there will be more to mourn his loss than there be to curse him.
It's only talking, when all is said and done, and if she talks of me in the stocks, why I can talk of her in the stocks, which is a good deal funnier if we come to that.
 
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