all over the country
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2.1
- idiom
:
por todo el país
- Peace Corps volunteers, for example, are teaching in schools all over the country.
- people all over the country
- workers all over the country
- cities all over the country
And you had riots all over the country in most American cities.
- And you had riots all over the country in most American cities.
- And people call me from all over the world, all over the country, to help them sell houses.
- These are folks from all over the country who took part in Zoom conversations.
- And so they ran this series of workshops all over the country.
- All right now this is done all over the country.
- And victims, as you say, are all over the country and they're broken as a result.
- And these are generally bad signs all over the country.
- Like there is no higher percentage because antique malls exist all over the country.
- It appeared mysteriously on plantations all over the country when fiddlers played Boil them cabbage down.
- But I don't know if you know that detainees are moved all over the country.
- My mate got me a job in Manchester, a garage delivering cars all over the country.
Examples
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Once the article broke, groups from all over the country also began turning their attention toward our situation.
Academic text (2015) -
People move all over the country.
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Like we have people from all over the country that know who we are.
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And people call me from all over the world, all over the country, to help them sell houses.
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These calls were happening all over the country, even in your particular chain.
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The play was produced, won an award, and was later presented all over the country.
Academic text (2010) -
More than fifty thousand girls all over the country found themselves out of a job.
Fiction book (1990) -
Banks were still closing all over the country; it was in the paper all the time.
Fiction book (1991) -
The group acquired an office and enrolled thousands of members all over the country.
Academic text (1998) -
We have customers from all over the country who love our products.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
In every part of a place
265
3.0
Happening across the whole country
236
1.8
In every part of the country
160
3.0
Across the whole country
90
1.0
From many different places
46
2.6
All over the country
2
3.5
Happening across the whole country
Antonyms
How Widespread
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'throughout the nation' is directly and compositionally built from 'all' (the whole), 'over' (throughout/covering), and 'country' (nation); a B1 learner who knows these words can infer the distributed/locative sense. This is a common, regular English locative/distributional pattern with clear cross-linguistic parallels, so the expression is immediately comprehensible from its parts.
Etymology
All over the country gives a simple map picture: imagine news or people as dots spread over all parts of the country. So, it means 'in many places across the country'.