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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
- Grose [et al.] (1811) “All holiday”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. , London: C. Chappell, , →OCLC.