all along

all along

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Adverb

all along

1. (duration, idiomatic) For the entire time; always.

   He thought he had me fooled, but I knew the truth all along.

Translations

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Chinese: Mandarin: 始終／始终 (zh) (shǐzhōng), 一直 (zh) (yīzhí) Dutch: allang (nl) Esperanto: ekde la komenco Finnish: koko ajan (fi), kaiken aikaa French: dès le départ, depuis le début Georgian: თავიდანვე (tavidanve) German: die ganze Zeit, schon immer, von Anfang an (de) Greek: ανέκαθεν (el) (anékathen), εξ αρχής (ex archís), πάντα (el) (pánta) Indonesian: selama ini Italian: fin dall'inizio, da sempre Japanese: ずっと (ja) (zutto) Polish: od samego początku, przez cały czas Portuguese: desde o começo, o tempo todo Russian: всё вре́мя (vsjó vrémja), с са́мого нача́ла (s sámovo načála) Slovak: vždy, odvždy, odjakživa, od začiatku, po celý čas Spanish: todo el tiempo, desde el inicio Swedish: hela tiden (sv) Ukrainian: увесь цей час (uvesʹ cej čas), весь час (vesʹ čas)

Preposition

all along

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all,‎ along.

   All along the beach, people were lounging on orange chairs. Why orange?