high and low
All possible places
High and low means everywhere, in all possible places.
The phrase appears almost exclusively with verbs of searching: I've looked high and low for my keys.
The image is of searching both elevated and ground-level spaces—leaving no place unchecked.
Sometimes written as high and low.
- far and wideOver great distances
- near and farAt all distances
- riseMove to higher position
- broadlyIn general terms
- everywhereIn all places
pit · peak · mountain peak · commoner · throughout · summit · peasant · abyss · nadir · pinnacle · extensively · all over · trough · ransack · leave no stone unturned · zenith · comb · top to bottom
- contrastsopposites, antithesis, polarity, dichotomy, duality
- oppositesopposite, opposites, antonym, antonyms, inverse
- kids musicsinging, songs, lullabies, nursery rhymes, alphabet songs
- music basicsnotes, rests, beats, rhythm patterns, melody
- pairspair, pairs, two, duo, duos
- completenesscomplete, completely, entire, totally, total
high and lowcursorily
In a hasty, surface-level manner
halfheartedly · superficially · perfunctorily · casually · barely
high and lownowhere
Not at any place
partially · incompletely · selectively · narrowly · minimally
high, low, lower, highly, highlight, higher, highest, lowest, lowered