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all that one's life's worth

all that one's life's 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 that one's life's worth in the dictionary

  1. all that glisters is not gold
  2. all that glitters
  3. all that glitters is not gold
  4. all that jazz
  5. all that one's life is worth
  6. all that one's life's worth
  7. all that said
  8. all the best
  9. all the gear and no idea
  10. all the go
  11. all the gold in Fort Knox

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