all my born days
1
8.9
- idiom
- Archaic
:
toda mi vida
- I have never, in all my born days, witnessed such a spectacular event.
- never in all my born days
Examples
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Not in all my born days.
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I have never seen anything like it in all my born days.
Fiction book (1994) -
Well, in all my born days, I've never seen nothing like it.
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I have never in all my born days," he stammered.
Fiction book (1996) -
In all my born days, I have always dreamed of traveling the world.
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She said that in all her born days she had never met anyone as kind as him.
Synonyms
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1.0
The time from birth to death when a person is alive
948
1.6
The whole time that a person, animal or thing exists
The time during a person's life for talking about different periods of it
You say this when you are surprised to have never seen something in your life
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally interpretable: 'all' (the whole) + 'my' (possessive) + 'born' (since birth) + 'days' (days of life) yields 'all the days since I was born' = 'all of one's life'. Although the phrasing is somewhat idiomatic or slightly archaic, the meaning follows directly from the constituent words and similar constructions exist in other languages, so a B1 learner who knows the parts should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
All my born days comes from older everyday speech where born and days were put together to mean the days since someone was born. So, saying all my born days is a strong way to say 'all of one's life'.