all at once
Adverb
Meaning
without warning
all at the same time
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Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.
You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
No man ever became wicked all at once.
No man acquires perfection all at once.
Many rats cannot all at once dig a hole for their home.