all there meaning: definition, quotations

all there

adj

Idiomatic Mentally competent; not absent-minded or insane.

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I think he's not all there...
She's pretty on the ball ... she's definitely all there.
A suspicion that “he was not all there,” and therefore “one of God’s bairns,” had insured him, during his long orphanage, the food, and clothes, and shelter, necessary for life; but no one had given him love.1885, Amelia E. Barr, chapter 1, in Jan Vedder's Wife:
His submission is that he is of Mongolian extraction and irresponsible for his actions. Not all there, in fact.1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all, there.