after all
Prepositional phrase
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Prepositional phrase
- (idiomatic) Anyway, in any case; indicates a statement is true regardless of other considerations; used to reinforce or explain a point.
- After all, they never come home for Christmas.
- Of course he won't give you credit. After all, his first and last concern is his company's profit margin.
- 8 Jan 2020, Felicity Cloake in The Guardian, How to make the perfect gluten-free chocolate brownies – recipe ↗
- I’d prefer to keep things straightforward and stick in the lovely, tasty yolks, too. After all, there’s no such thing as too rich when it comes to brownies.
- (idiomatic) in the end, however; used in referring to something that was believed to be the case, but is not; or to an outcome that is not what was expected or predicted.
- They won't be coming home for Christmas after all.
- French: après tout, finalement
- German: immerhin, schließlich, allerdings
- Italian: dopo tutto, dopotutto, in fin dei conti, alla fine, nonostante tutto
- Portuguese: afinal
- Russian: в конце́ концо́в
- Spanish: después de todo, al final
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