To ask if you have heard of or use the expression “all found”

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We were discussing the need for fruit pickers this morning and wondering where they would be housed. I suggested that the job would be “all found”. Partner has never heard of this. I don’t think it’s that unusual, is it??

No.
But I like it

yes I've heard of it

Yes but only because I read a lot of books for my English lit A level many from the 1800s and 1900s and I think I read it in there. It has gone out of fashion but I think it means bed and board included - sort of thing a live in servant or farm worker might get.

Yes, very Victorian.

All found? Would have no idea what that means, never heard of it

Never heard of it, sorry!

In context I would have assumed you meant “it’ll all get sorted out eventually” which I see is way off the mark

Never heard the expression despite being fairly old. I suspect it has largely disappeared with minimum wage. In the olden days, jobs that included food and accommodation could be paid at a much lower hourly rate.

Not heard of that one before.

Usually for nannies or housemaids, it's a bit archaic. Just an excuse to pay a pittance as good and lodging is considered to be part of the pay.

I wonder how it translates, or if it's universal? That might be why adverts now tend to state 'accommodation provided and all costs/bills covered'.

In the days it was used, they wouldn't need to consider translation.

Yes. All found = all in. Board & lodgings in return for work on or nervy the premises.

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Never heard of it but I've never looked at job adverts for live-in jobs so I'd guess that it might be more common in that context than in general conversation or reading.

Never heard of it.

Yes, heard of it, but like other posters, think it's a very old fashioned expression.

I know what it means, but it has fallen out of common usage. I think most well-read people would have come across it, particularly in older novels etc.

Yes, heard of it; a shorthand for food, bills and accommodation included.

Never heard of it.

Never heard of it

Yes. But not heard it used since the '70's.

No

Yes, heard it in use for jobs like hop pickers, apple pickers etc. Used to be seen in advertisements for students to go grape picking too.

Yes I've heard of it. I did fruit picking in Norfolk during university holidays back in the late 1960's There were even then 17 nationalities in the fields. It's much more skilled work than you realise. If the fruit's not picked properly you don't get paid for that batch and the skilled workers picked about 4 times more than the students. Piece work too so it mattered!

I've never heard of it, maybe it's not a common phrase in Scotland.

Never heard of it