English Phrase of the Day

all the time

Definitions

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all the time
1. adv. (set phrase, duration) Always; constantly; for the complete duration.
2. adv. (set phrase, frequency) Very often; frequently.
Analysis
all
1. adv. (degree) intensifier.
It suddenly went all quiet.
She was all, “Whatever.”
2. adv. (poetic) Entirely.
3. adv. Apiece; each.
the
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
time
1. n. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.
Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time
2. n. (physics, usually) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time.
3. n. (physics) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.

She used it all the time.

We are building all the time but so are they.

I lift stuff all the time, for all of you!

I suspected something all the time.

I do it all the time in my ministry.

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