at all hands

at all hands

1. (archaic, idiomatic) From all angles; from every direction; generally.
   • Dec. 24, 1858, Carl Schurz, letter to Hon. J. F. Potter

     I would have stopped it, for the reason that my name cannot be used in connection with a nomination unless the thing is understood at all hands

• on all hands
• on every hand

• “hand”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.