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all holiday

all holiday noun: a saying signifying that the business or person spoken of or alluded to is finished, i.e. that it has no future.

Noun

all holiday (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete, slang) A saying signifying that the business or person spoken of or alluded to is finished, i.e. that it has no future.
    • It is all holiday at Peckham.
    • It is all holiday with him.

Questions about all holiday

What does all holiday mean?
All holiday means a saying signifying that the business or person spoken of or alluded to is finished, i.e. that it has no future.
What part of speech is all holiday?
All holiday is a noun.

Words near all holiday in the dictionary

  1. all hat and no cowboy
  2. all hat, no ranch
  3. all heart
  4. all hell breaks loose
  5. all hell broke loose
  6. all holiday
  7. All Holiness
  8. All Holinesses
  9. all hollow
  10. all hope abandon ye who enter here
  11. all hope abandon, ye who enter here

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