all the thing

all the thing

That which is currently (and usually temporarily) fashionable or trendy. Haven't you heard? Wearing knee-high socks is all the thing now!
See also: all, thing
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • in thing, the
  • tell me about it
  • quack
  • if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it is a duck
  • have a thing
  • far be it for/from me to...
  • far be it from (one) to (do something)
  • far be it from me
  • far be it from me to
  • far be it from me to do something, but...
References in classic literature
He was aware only of curiosity in all the things about him.
White Fang
All the things I've done in life I've had to work for.
Billy the kid is all grown up: at the tender age of 40, Billy Donovan, the former Providence gunslinger, became one of only three men (Dean Smith and Bobby Knight being the others) to both play in the Final Four and win a national championship as a head coach
In the Six Nations tradition, we need to thank them for telling all the medicine, the ceremony, the songs that need to be sung, all the things they taught us about that.
Big time thank yous: a traditional prayer of Thanksgiving: New Life Journal interviews Tuscarora elder Ted Williams
Congressman (Jim) Gibbons, thank you also for spending time with us, and for all of us that have had a magic opportunity to serve in Nevada, we appreciate your help and support in all the things you do for our folks out there.
Challenges and capabilities of the U.S. Air Force
Then the son, at the end of the play, stepping into the father's shoes, seizing up the father's cause, his banner, becoming all the things that Becker would have liked for him (after betraying his best hopes for him), seeing some value in Becker's life and the way he has conducted it, and deciding to conduct his life in the same way--there is something about that, I think, that the audience can carry away.
August Wilson on Playwriting: An Interview
The main thing is that we recognize the integrity of commitments and the rights citizens have to leave their property and take care of the health of people they love and all the things that people do.
TRIUMPHS, TRIALS AND ERRORS
In Europe, their unemployment rate was high because all the things they've done to protect their workers have worked against their workers.
The Revolution Has Just Begun
Because what you're asking for, Malcolm, basically, is a classic free market argument, that the market will solve its inefficiencies and will ultimately give you all the things markets give you: innovation.
Canada v. U.S
That's the sad part: All the things that we will be saying on immediate issues are things that should be said by one of the two major parties and won't be.
David McReynolds
We know that physics will allow us to put more circuits on fiber; we know the routers are going to get bigger; we know all the things we need to do to push bandwidth around the globe are going to happen.
Fast-lane technology
The reason we care about great painters is that, within this framework, they could be expressive, original, and so on - all the things that seem so 20th century.
The subject in question
Start by thinking of all the things that T-shirt color might affect: body temperature, sun protection, attraction to insects (and people), ...
Need an experiment idea?
They stopped to take the bodies out of there with pause, doing all the things humankind has always done when they see a dead thing of their own kind.
What makes a good funeral? The editors interview Thomas Lynch. (Special Fall Book Section)
All the things that are part of signifying, dozens playing, tall tales, blues.
Angularity: An Interview with Leon Forrest
In the end I had to empty myself of other people's knowledge and other people's religion and stop carrying around all the things that other people had told me I should carry around with me.
Arlo Guthrie