all one's life's worth
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.75 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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.""
- ""Fancy planting a capitol in this Godforsaken spot. Fairly reeks of ague and alligators and things. 'Tis all one's life's worth to put foot out of doors.""
- "It is particularly bad out in front of the House Office Building between 5 and 7 o'clock in the evening. It is all your life is worth to get a cab then."
- ""[I]t's about all your life's worth to go out into that blizzard, even for just a few feet.""