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all one's life is worth

all one's life is worth is the alternative form of all one's life's worth.

Meaning of all one's life's worth

Noun

all one's life's worth

  1. (idiomatic) A momentous matter; a very serious risk; a difficult task or situation.
    • Many of its streets are cavern-like, for they run under the houses. . . . There is no regularity of style about them, and it is all one's life is worth to try to find the way among them without a guide and a torch.1889, Edward L. Wilson, “From Sinai to Shechem,”, in The Century Magazine, volume 37, page 208

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Words near all one's life is worth in the dictionary

  1. all one likes
  2. all one wants
  3. all one word
  4. all one's born days
  5. all one's eggs in one basket
  6. all one's life is worth
  7. all one's life's worth
  8. all one's taste is in one's mouth
  9. all other things being equal
  10. all out
  11. all over

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