the length and breadth of somewhere
Definition
C2 If you travel the length and breadth of a place, you go to every part of it: She travelled the length and breadth of Ireland looking for her missing brother.Somewhere, anywhere, nowhere, or everywhere
(Definition of the length and breadth of somewhere from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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