A dictionary of Confusable Phrases: More Than 10,000 Idioms and Collocations

all right for you • all right with you
all right for you—usually accompanies a threat of revenge as
said by a child angry at a playmate: All right for you, John.
See if I ever play with you again.
all right with you—(also: all right by you) suits you; is ac-
ceptable to you: Please let me know if that time is all right
with you.
all right guy • right guy
all right guy —(coll.) a reliable or trustworthy person: We
took a big chance by inviting you and … you turned out to
be an all right guy.
right guy —
1
. = all right guy: I told Gains what the hotel
clerk said and how lucky we were he happened to be a right
guy. 2. (coll., also: Mr. Right) a perfect romantic or marriage
partner: When she moved to Madrid she joked that she would
never return home if she met the right guy.
all the best • all the better
all the best—is used as a farewell or to close an informal let-
ter: I think your comments are important and will make sure
our health writer sees them as well. All the best.
all the better —even more so: He said nothing of this to Miss
Celia; but she found it out, and liked him all the better for
keeping some of his small worries to himself.
all the time • all the while
all the time —
1
. through the whole period; continuously:
Sue said she knew it all the time. 2. very often; many times:
Ruth talks about her trip to Europe all the time. 3. essentially;
first and last: You probably are a politician all the time, which
is why you never get to behave badly.
Note: 
The expression does not correlate in meaning with the
phrase all hours— very late or very early hours: It is dark: it
must be all hours.
all the while — = all the time 
1
: Mary went to college in her
home town, and lived at home all the while.