Idiom
up hill and down dale
Meaning
Here and there; everywhere.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I searched up hill and down dale for my lost keys.”
“The police searched up hill and down dale for the missing hiker before finding him in a cave.”
“Driven by a desperate need for answers, the detective traveled up hill and down dale, questioning every witness he could find across the vast, rugged countryside.”
Examples
simple
“I searched up hill and down dale for my lost keys.”
contextual
“The police searched up hill and down dale for the missing hiker before finding him in a cave.”
complex
“Driven by a desperate need for answers, the detective traveled up hill and down dale, questioning every witness he could find across the vast, rugged countryside.”
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