1869. Notes on N. W. Prov. India, p. 98. We find an all round rent
of so much per acre charged on the cultivation.
All-Rounder, subs. (popular). [From all round + er] he who or that
which is all round (q.v.); as an all round man; particularly applied,
however, to a shirt collar the same height all round the neck and
meeting in front. Once fashionable, but little worn now.
1857. A. Trollope, Three Clerks, ch. xxii. But he had bestowed,
perhaps, the greatest amount of personal attention on his
collar.... Some people may think that an all-rounder is an
all-rounder, and that if one is careful to get an all-rounder one
has done all that is necessary. But so thought not Macassar Jones.
1860. All the Year Round, No. 42, 369. That particularly
demonstrative type of the [collar] species known as the all
rounder. [M.]
1865. Lord Strangford, Selection (1869), II., 163. Dressed in full
uniform, with high stand-up collar; the modern all rounder not
having got so far into Asia. [M.]
1875. Chambers’ Journal, No. 586. To present himself in an all
rounder hat and coat of formal cut on Sunday.
All Round my Hat, adv. phr. (popular).—1. To feel all round one’s hat
is to feel queer; out of sorts; all overish.
2. That’s all round my hat is synonymous with gammon! Nonsense! See All
my eye. A music hall song [1834] had this phrase as a refrain.