# all there

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/all-there
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

Mentally competent; not absent-minded or insane.

## Examples

- I wonder if he is all there sometimes.
- After he started talking to the wall for ten minutes, I began to doubt he was all there.
- The witness gave such a bizarre and incoherent account of the events that the judge questioned whether he was entirely all there.

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