all day long
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1.0
- idiom
:
todo el día
- My dad watches TV all day long.
- work all day long
- play all day long
- go on all day long
You can end up with like meetings all day long with everybody.
- You can end up with like meetings all day long with everybody.
- This makeup has been on all day long, been out and about.
- And then I realized that like we do that all day long and it's exhausting.
- All right, You are with people all day long that come to you with issues.
- I've been wearing this foundation all day long, and I am so impressed.
- You can chant at the police all day long, there's no law against that.
- John, That's what I get repeatedly all day long in my inbox.
- And because the culture tells us all day long that these will make us happy.
- I grew up Christian, raised in the church all day long on Sundays.
- You can say that all day long until they do it.
- And he's like where we will spend all day long looking through this entire freaking base.
- Yeah, you're you're creating your world all day long with your decisions.
Examples
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It's already the number one most-requested song of the week, and we're playing it all day long.
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I can talk to her, all day long, I mean, this is good, this is a good thing.
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I watch and listen to you all day long at work, at home.
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All right, You are with people all day long that come to you with issues.
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And because the culture tells us all day long that these will make us happy.
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Where we're selling cars all day long!
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Some of them read Holy Books all day long in the House of Study.
Fiction book (1997) -
One goes slightly crazy when one is alone with small children all day long; yes, one does.
Fiction book (1997) -
All day long, they watch TV.
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I watched my favorite show all day long without taking a break.
Synonyms
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1.0
During the whole day without stopping
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2.1
Lasting for the whole day
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2.5
All the time without stopping
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'throughout the entire day' is directly and compositionally derived from 'all' (the whole), 'day' (the period) and 'long' (for an extended time), so a learner who knows the constituent words can infer the phrase meaning. This duration construction is common cross-linguistically and follows regular English patterns (all + time period + long), making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
All day long makes a simple picture: something goes on from morning until night, and the words all, day, and long show it lasts the whole day. So it means 'throughout the entire day'.