de toda la vida
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “from [someone's] whole life”.
Adjective
[edit]de toda la vida (invariable)
- lifelong
- Ha sido un sueño de toda la vida.
- It's been a lifelong dream.
- (colloquial, idiomatic) longtime, indicates that something is typical of its category and/or old
- 2016, María Díaz, La guía gastrocómica: La guía de los cómicos que saben comer bien, Roca editorial, →ISBN:
- Un bar de toda la vida pero donde hacen las porras y churros ellos y casi a cualquier hora que entres puedes tomarlas ¡recién hechas!
- A typical old bar but they make porras and churros themselves and almost any time you come in you can have them, made fresh!
Further reading
[edit]- “de toda la vida”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16