1. for all the world - Adverb
2. for all the world - Phrase
under any circumstances
Source: WordNetI looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is very odd, for all the world seemed there. Frances Burney
I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great. Isaac Watts
My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see. Gillian Schieber Flynn
Well I'm shameless when it comes to loving you. I'd do anything you want me to I'd do anything at all. And I'm standing here for all the world to see There ain't that much left of me That has very far to fall. Billy Joel
Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them. Friedrich Nietzsche
The sun shines for all the world. French Proverb