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- adverb idiomatic (emphatic)
Ever .
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chained_bear commented on the word in all my born days
1955 M. ALLINGHAM Beckoning Lady vi. 91, I never met such a cack-handed jackass in all my born days.
August 29, 2008
yarb commented on the word in all my born days
"But it's been a terrible shock to me, sir — my lord, I should say, but there! my nerves are all to pieces. Such a thing has never 'appened — happened to me in all my born days."
- Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body?, ch. 1
November 5, 2008
yarb commented on the word in all my born days
O Molly! what shall I say of London? All the towns that ever I beheld in my born-days, are no more than Welsh barrows and crumlecks to this wonderful sitty!
- Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Win Jenkins to Mary Jones), 1771
January 6, 2009
sionnach commented on the word in all my born days
We cromlech-dwellers demand respect!
And beter speling!
January 6, 2009
reesetee commented on the word in all my born days
Ha! I was discussing this odd phrase with someone just the other day.
January 6, 2009
yarb commented on the word in all my born days
I'm going to note down every instance I see of it in my reading, just like I'm doing with bathing machine.
January 7, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word in all my born days
Have you seen laundry machine at all, yarb?
January 7, 2009
reesetee commented on the word in all my born days
*senses a setup*
January 7, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word in all my born days
In his reading, I mean.
January 7, 2009
reesetee commented on the word in all my born days
Oh.
*slinks away*
January 7, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word in all my born days
In all his born reading, I mean.
January 7, 2009
yarb commented on the word in all my born days
And no sooner have bathing machines cropped up than I run across them in Humphry Clinker.
January 7, 2009
yarb commented on the word in all my born days
'I never see sich a aggrawatin' boy as you are, Samivel,' said Mr. Weller, looking indignantly at his son; 'never in all my born days.'
- Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (1840), ch. LVI
February 21, 2009
yarb commented on the word in all my born days
"I'd been plugging away for many hours when there came a sound I'd never heard the like of in my born days. Eh, I won't forget that."
- C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
(am reading it to my daughter)
April 18, 2011
yarb commented on the word in all my born days
"I reckon the world is coming to an end. I never see the beat of it, in all my born days."
- Twain, Huckleberry Finn
August 26, 2012