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all the adjective phrase The only. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, Midland”]
1814 Hartsell Journal 143 he was all the purson that Dyed out of our ridgement yet. 1864 Blair CW Letters (April 30) I ansuerd your leter of the 17th inst whitch is all the lete[r] I hav received from home yet. 1915 Dingus Word-list VA 180 = the only, as “all the friend I’ve got.” 1959 Hall Coll (Newport TN) he had about eight or ten on [the string], speckled trout–that’s all the kind they was back in what they called Laurel Creek. 1972 AOHP/ALC-241 That was all the way I traveled the most of the time. 1989 Matewan OHP-9 That's all the way they had to cross the river.