high and low

English

Adverb

high and low (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Everywhere; all over the place.
    He searched high and low for the car keys, through every room in the house.
    • 1847, The Dublin University Magazine, volume 30, page 215:
      Yes! let the winds of the blastful North, wherever abroad their breath blow, / Tell high and low, to friend and foe, that my arm bestowed his death-blow!
  2. (dated, obsolete) Wholly; entirely.

Noun

high and low

  1. (dated, obsolete) People of high rank or status.
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