high and low | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Everywhere;all over the place.He searchedhigh and lowfor the car keys, through every room in the house.1847,The Dublin University Magazine, volume30, page215:Yes! let the winds of the blastful North, wherever abroad their breath blow, / Tellhigh and low, to friend and foe, that my arm bestowed his death-blow!; (dated,obsolete)Wholly;entirely.

Examples:

EN: I looked high and low for her.
ES: La he buscado por todas partes.
EN: The boss has been looking high and low for you.
ES: El jefe estaba buscándote por todas partes.
EN: Suppose you were in charge of this office and you'd been hunting high and low for months for a code expert, a fellow with the nom de plume of Anson Meredith, a fellow you thought you really needed.
ES: Supongamos que estuviera a cargo de esta oficina y que hubiera estado buscando por todas partes durante meses a un experto en códigos, un tipo con el seudónimo de Anson Meredith, un tipo que pensara que realmente necesitara.
EN: I've looked high and low for him.
ES: Le he buscado por todas partes.
EN: Merchants short and merchants tall and merchants high and low.
ES: Comerciantes bajos y altos. Comerciantes mejores y peores.
EN: I've been looking high and low for him.
ES: Lo he buscado por todas partes.
EN: - I don't know Mr. Lindsay, but we looked high and low for her.
ES: No sé, señor Lindsay, pero corrimos a buscarla.
EN: Looked high and low for you,
ES: Te busqué por todas partes. Quería contarte una gran noticia.
EN: He hunted high and low for that old...
ES: Buscó por todos lados aquella vieja...
EN: As I was saying, he hunted high and low for that old sow.
ES: Como iba diciendo... Buscó por todos lados aquella vieja cerda.
EN: Why, I have searched high and low for a buy like this.
ES: - 10 dólares. - ¿10 dólares?
EN: One I've look ed high and low for
ES: Una que he buscado en todas partes
ES: He buscado en todas partes
ES: He buscado en todas partes
EN: I flew high and low for three hours.
ES: Volé por alto y por bajo durante tres horas.
EN: My dear, the army spent the most strenuous few days ...searching high and low for Bill Kronin.
ES: Llevan unos días agotadores buscando por todas partes a Kronin.
EN: I've been buzzing over this town Like a blue bottle fly looking for you high and low.
ES: He estado revoloteando por este pueblo... como una mosca, buscándote por arriba y por abajo.

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