all-of-the-above = 'multifaceted; multipronged'

[Jonathan Lighter]

It used to be that you needed an "above" to say "all of the above."
However, CNN aired a clip of the President saying we need to pursue "an
all-of-the-above energy strategy." He enumerated the "above" only
afterwards.

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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