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all one's life's worth

noun

Definitions

  1. A momentous matter

    A momentous matter; a very serious risk; a difficult task or situation.

    • Many of its streets are cavern-like, for they run under the houses. . . . There is no regularity of style about them, and it is all one's life is worth to try to find the way among them without a guide and a torch.
    • "I'm going to take a much-needed nap—and it'll be all your life's worth to let me miss that train!"
    • "It's all one's life is worth to board one of these confounded cable-cars."

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for all one's life's worth. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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