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Idiom

all one's born days

Meaning

One's whole life.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“I have never seen such a storm in all my born days.”

“She told the police that she had never witnessed such a strange event in all her born days.”

“The elderly man remarked that, in all his born days, he had never encountered a winter as harsh and unforgiving as the one currently gripping the valley.”

Examples

simple

“I have never seen such a storm in all my born days.”

contextual

“She told the police that she had never witnessed such a strange event in all her born days.”

complex

“The elderly man remarked that, in all his born days, he had never encountered a winter as harsh and unforgiving as the one currently gripping the valley.”

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