the.com/omnibus
One bill to rule them all, and in the chaos, bind them.
means A single bill or publication that bundles many separate items together into one package.
from From Latin 'omnibus,' meaning 'for all' — the dative plural of 'omnis' (all). It first rode into English in the 1820s as the name for horse-drawn public buses in Paris and London — carriages 'for all' passengers, not just the wealthy — which is also where 'bus' was later clipped from. The sense of a bundled bill or book 'for all' purposes followed naturally: one vehicle, or one volume, meant to carry everything at once.
- origin
- latin for for everyone
- first use
- 19th century paris horse-drawn buses
- congress trick
- bundles unrelated laws so none can be vetoed alone
- page count
- often thousands of pages, rarely fully read