all the time
all the time
1. Lit. throughout a specific period of time.
Bill was stealing money for the last two years, and Tom knew it all the time.
All the time through December and January, Jane held down two jobs.
2. Fig. at all times; continuously.
Your blood keeps flowing all the time.
That electric motor runs all the time.
3. Fig. repeatedly; habitually.
She keeps a handkerchief in her hand all the time.
He whistles all the time. It drives me crazy.
热门单词
- a bright idea
- a leave of absence
- all night long
- allot
- all over town
- a long shot
- amuse so with sth
- an important milestone in so's life
- answer so's purpose
- a piercing scream
- appear out of nowhere
- apply oneself to sth
- approach
- apron
- a red herring
- armed and dangerous
- arrange for so to do sth
- arrest
- arrive (somewhere) at the stroke of some time
- artist
- a run on sth