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All the way

adverb

To the goal. Synonym: the whole way.

Completely. Synonym: clear. "Slept clear through the night" , "There were open fields clear to the horizon"

Not stopping short of sexual intercourse.

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"All the way" Quotes from Famous Books

... in searching for it. Nevertheless, to his last day in office Warden Atherton believed in the existence of that dynamite. Captain Jamie, who is still Captain of the Yard, believes to this day that the dynamite is somewhere in the prison. Only yesterday, he came all the way up from San Quentin to Folsom to make one more effort to get me to reveal the hiding-place. I know he will never breathe easy ...

— The Jacket (The Star-Rover) • Jack London

... he said in accents of sarcasm, ignoring the jibe, "seems to think a heap of you—sending you all the way out here alone." ...

— The Trail to Yesterday • Charles Alden Seltzer

... Spaniards in Peru: and caused him to be lodged in his palace, and well entertained. He lived seven months in Manoa, but was not suffered to wander into the country anywhere. He was also brought thither all the way blindfold, led by the Indians, until he came to the entrance of Manoa itself, and was fourteen or fifteen days in the passage. He avowed at his death that he entered the city at noon, and then they uncovered his face; and that he travelled all that day till night through the city, and the ...

— The Discovery of Guiana • Sir Walter Raleigh

... ornament. We met many wood-teams, hauling knees and spars, and were sorely troubled to get out of their way. Beyond the bay, the hills of Norrland ceased, sinking into those broad monotonous undulations which extend nearly all the way to Stockholm. Gardens with thriving fruit-trees now began to be more frequent, giving evidence of a climate where man has a right to live. I doubt whether it was ever meant that the human race should settle in any zone so frigid that fruit ...

— Northern Travel - Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland • Bayard Taylor

... just left me," said Tom. "That's all. I didn't head home, because I wanted to come along. Been a-trailin' you all the way. ...

— The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border • Gerald Breckenridge

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