sum total

sum total

Everything taken together; the entirety. Your thesis should be the sum total of everything you learned and researched throughout the year. If this is the sum total of your efforts, then we may need to seriously reevaluate your place in this business.
See also: sum, total
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

sum total

The entirety, everything, as in I spent all day in the kitchen and the sum total of my efforts is this cake. [Mid-1600s]
See also: sum, total
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
See also:
  • everything
  • everything an' all
  • everything in the garden is lovely
  • everything in the garden is lovely/rosy
  • lovely
  • rosy
  • everything in the garden is rosy
  • everything is rosy in the garden
  • everything under the sun
  • Is everything jake?
References in periodicals archive
The sum total of Pienaar's Premier League appearances with a cockerel on his chest?
At any time during the currency of the contract, the total top- up premium paid shall not exceed the sum total of regular premiums paid at that point of time.
The sum total of their judgments have put us where we find ourselves today.
The two phones also come complete with Adhan and Salah prayer time alarm functions, as well as QurAAEan software, the Hijri calendar, a Zakat calculator that allows users to calculate the sum total of Zakat based on income, exact and accurate times for prayers, Iftar, and Suhour.
But the sum total of arrests for the day was six people who had no MOT certificates.
They will have to pay Stamp Duty Land Tax on both the amount of your mortgage debt plus the amount of the deposit being repaid if the sum total of these two figures exceeds pounds 175,000.
The sum total is a good examination of the artist, his life, and his works.
The past is the sum total of human folly; the future is the sum total of human possibility.
You face the risk of being prosecuted, but never mind - the financial penalty may still be less than otherwise paying the sum total of all the vet's bills.
I take on board your two small loaves of bread quote and your pension sum total, but it would be remiss of me not to mention your free bus travel, winter fuel money, free eye examinations, free prescriptions, a free TV licence at 75, social fund help for many OAPs and a choice of hospitals for treatment, not forgetting the minimum wage for workers, all introduced by this Labour Government.
Institutional research is the sum total of all activities directed at describing the full spectrum of functions (educational, administrative, and support) occurring within a college or university.
All those experiences you've had, both good and bad, equal the sum total of who you have become, and all those roads you've traveled have brought you to where you are.
The Catecism of the Catholic Church defines it as "the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily." He also mentions solidarity, a permanent principle and a moral virtue, which commits us to the common good.
If this were the sum total of actions at the conference, this would indeed have been momentous--but it wasn't.
Because the group sections lack urgency when Whelan is offstage, the sum total of Klavier doesn't place it at the top of the Wheeldon canon.