all day
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all day (not comparable)
- For the period of an entire day, or at least during all the daytime of a day.
- Coordinate term: all night
- We walked all day.
- 1802, Robert Southey, The Inchcape Rock[1]:
- So thick a haze o’erspreads the sky,
They cannot see the sun on high:
The wind hath blown a gale all day;
At evening it hath died away.
- (figuratively) Easily; handily; in spades; by far.
- Well, for twenty quid we're having it — it's worth that all day long.
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the entire day
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