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English
Pronunciation
Noun
all holiday (uncountable)
- (idiomatic, obsolete, slang) A saying signifying that the business or person spoken of or alluded to is finished, i.e. that it has no future.
- It is all holiday at Peckham.
- It is all holiday with him.
References
- [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) “All holiday”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. , London: C. Chappell, , →OCLC.