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Meaning: (idiomatic)Amomentousmatter; a very seriousrisk; adifficulttask or situation.1889, Edward L. Wilson, “From Sinai to Shechem,”, inThe Century Magazine, volume37,page208:Many of its streets are cavern-like, for they run under the houses. . . . There is no regularity of style about them, and it isall one's life is worthto try to find the way among them without a guide and a torch.1907,B. M. Bower, chapter 7, inThe Happy Family:"I'm going to take a much-needed nap—and it'll beall your life's worthto let me miss that train!"1907,George Jean NathanandHenry Louis Mencken(eds.),The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, vol. 23,p. 23 (Google snippet view):"It'sall one's life is worthto board one of these confounded cable-cars."1912, Acton Davies, Charles Frederic Nirdlinger, chapter 15, inThe First Lady in the Land:"Fancy planting a capitol in this Godforsaken spot. Fairly reeks of ague and alligators and things. 'Tisall one's life's worthto put foot out of doors."1962,District of Columbia Appropriations, U.S. Government Printing Office,p. 217 (Google snippet view):It is particularly bad out in front of the House Office Building between 5 and 7 o'clock in the evening. It isall your life is worthto get a cab then.2007, Elridge Trott,Gathering at Vantage,→ISBN,page242:"[I]t's aboutall your life's worthto go out into that blizzard, even for just a few feet."2013, Anne Hassett,The Sojourn,→ISBN,page13:"I'm afraid you need to wait until the women say you can come in. It would beall your life's worthto go bustin in now."
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