by all accounts | Idiomator

Meaning: (literally)According to all availableaccountsorreports.1881, Francis Beaufort Palmer,Company precedents, for use in relation to companies subject to the Companies acts 1862 to 1880. With copious notes., page512:[…]and alsoby all accountsof the surplus which shall from time to time be settled between the new company and the liquidators of the old company[…]; (idiomatic)According to everything thatpeoplehave said.1878, Charles Dickens,All Year Round, page161:The reputation of the elder Baron, althoughby all accountsjustly merited, was destined to be completely thrown into the shade by that of his son[…]1887, William Carleton,Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, page302:[…]that they say,by all accounts, it costs him great trouble to make, by rason that he must fast a long time, and pray by the day, afore he gets himself[…]2007, Marcus Clarke,For the Term of His Natural Life,→ISBN, page272:I sent the particulars to the ship-builder, andby all accountsthe news killed him, for he died not long after.2021December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques Cheltenham (1928)”, inRAIL, number947, page60:The society had apparently been formed the previous year, but as the Cheltenham Spa Railway Society, which sounded rather parochial and unambitious - particularly as (by all accounts) its founders had gathered in a garden shed in the town.

Examples:

EN: "Only 17 years old, she lost her mother.... Soon afterwards she was engaged as a governess by the dowager... countess at Graskowitz, an arrogant, heartless woman by all accounts."
ES: Con sólo 17 años, perdió a su madre, empleándose... poco después como ama de llaves de la condesa
EN: Your Majesty's kindness would be overwhelming had I not been prepared for it by all accounts.
ES: La amabilidad de vuestra Majestad me abrumaría si antes no me hubiesen prevenido.
EN: A very quiet girl by all accounts.
ES: Una chica muy tranquila por lo que se dice.
EN: He is not one of those whose sole aim is enjoyment, as, by all accounts, that unfortunate young man his brother seems to be.
ES: No es de los que sólo piensan en divertirse. Como parece ser que es ese desgraciado hermano suyo.
EN: - Well they do by all accounts.
ES: - Bueno, al parecer lo hacen.
EN: A model inmate by all accounts.
ES: Se dice que era un interno modelo.
EN: Oh well, erm... by all accounts she isn't too happy, is she?
ES: Pues que por lo que se cuenta, no es muy feliz.
EN: Oh, don't you think it's very odd that we should kneel and pray to God when by all accounts we might send our problems up by kites?
ES: No crees que es muy raro que nos arrodillemos para rezar a Dios, cuando podríamos mandarle nuestros problemas en un papalote.
EN: You say the Doctor is... is with Preslin, who by all accounts is dead.
ES: Usted dice que el Doctor está ... está con Preslin, que por lo que parece está muerto.
EN: Oh, no ordinary boots, by all accounts.
ES: No unas botas corrientes, a decir de todos.
EN: And a pretty good shot too with a rifle by all accounts.
ES: Y según dicen, un gran tirador de fusil.
EN: It's hearsay mind, but straight out of the deep blue sea by all accounts.
ES: Es de oídas, pero de fuentes confiables, según todos los testimonios.
EN: The three of you are happy with it, by all accounts.
ES: Los tres están contentos con ello, todas las partes.
EN: Lovely little thing, by all accounts.
ES: Una preciosura.
EN: This man... a harmless enough old creature by all accounts was running away from an army patrol.
ES: La víctima, un viejo inofensivo, huía de una patrulla.

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