up hill and down dale
Language: en
Meaning: (UK,US,Australia,idiomatic)Here and there;everywhere.1936, Rollo Ahmed,The Black Art, London: Long, page275:I have a great deal of sympathy with scientific doubters, and with those who test psychicismup hill and down daleand are not satisfied.1980December 6, Nancy Walker, “Toodle-Oo, Doodle”, inGay Community News, volume 8, number20, page12:We bought a 1969 dark green VW Beetle which I immediately named "Doodle Bug," and off we went. The car did not give us a minute's trouble throughout the trip —up hill, down dale, across uncharted wastelands between super highways.
Examples:EN: And Tom, if I went with you up hill and down dale, he would haunt me like a bogeyman.
ES: Tom, si me fuera sola contigo hasta el fin del mundo... su imagen me perseguiría como un espectro.
EN: through deserts I wandered, up hill and down dale;
ES: atravesé páramos, monte arriba, valle abajo;
EN: That was my life too, up hill and down dale, till you could say,
ES: Esa también fue mi vida, andar de un lado a otro por montes y valles hasta poder decir
EN: My research takes me up hill and down dale.
ES: Mi investigación me lleva por todas partes.
EN: The gates of Paris open onto the unknown at full speed, up hill and down dale, across France.
ES: Las puertas de París se abren a lo desconocido a toda velocidad, por montes y por valles, a través de Francia.
EN: I've been traipsing up hill and down dale all over Goodman's Land.
ID: Aku mondar-mandir mendaki bukit dan menuruni lembah di seluruh Goodman's Land.
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