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(all) rolled into one

Combined into a single entity. That restaurant is like nowhere I've ever been. It's like a diner, an aquarium, and a magic show rolled into one. My boss expects me to be a receptionist, personal assistant, and office manager all rolled into one.
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(all) rolled into one

(of characteristics drawn from different people or things) combined in one person or thing.
1907 George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara My methods…would be no use if I were Voltaire, Rousseau, Bentham, Mill, Dickens, Carlyle, Ruskin, George, Butler, and Morris all rolled into one.
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(all) rolled into ˈone

several qualities/things combined in one place, person, object, etc: It’s a penknife, scissors, corkscrew all rolled into one. ♢ He’s a writer, scientist and journalist rolled into one.
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You wave an airy adieu to the boys on shore, light your biggest pipe, and swagger about the deck as if you were Captain Cook, Sir Francis Drake, and Christopher Columbus all rolled into one.
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I knew of their guilt though, and I determined that I should be judge, jury, and executioner all rolled into one.
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about a physical art form called capoeira--a dance language, and martial art all rolled into one.
The art of motion: an engineer dances with capoeira
The prom is becoming a wedding, Oscar night, and state dinner all rolled into one.
Priced Out Of the Prom
Nikolais himself was something of a magician--choreographer, composer, set, costume, and lighting designer, all rolled into one.
Staying power: Murray Louis and Nikolais Dance
The composite sketch of a subversive, right-wing, and new-age "home-alone" wierdo all rolled into one, spoofs masculinity--a wry rejoinder to the criticism that his homemade, needle-crafted snugglies, purloined from thrift stores, cast the loving feminine hands and wanting children's arms from which they had been separated in a pejorative light.
Mike Kelley
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