up hill and down dale Definition

hill
noun

1. A raised area of land or mound, smaller than a mountain.

Thesaurus: acclivity, bluff, rise, mound, hillock, mount, knoll, butte, koppie, mesa, promontory, rise, tor.
2. An incline on a road.

Derivative: hilliness
noun

Derivative: hilly
adj

(of land) rising and falling in mounds
Thesaurus: sloping, undulating, uneven, broken, bumpy.

Idiom: old as the hills

colloq
Immeasurably old.

Idiom: over the hill

colloq
Past one's peak or best; becoming too old for something.
Thesaurus: old, superannuated, declining, washed-up.

Idiom: up hill and down dale

With vigour and persistence.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon hyll.