up hill and down dale

• up hill and down dell

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up hill and down dale (not comparable)

1. (UK, US, Australia, idiomatic) Here and there; everywhere.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 275:

     I have a great deal of sympathy with scientific doubters, and with those who test psychicism up hill and down dale and are not satisfied.

   • 1980 December 6, Nancy Walker, “Toodle-Oo, Doodle”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 12:

     We bought a 1969 dark green VW Beetle which I immediately named "Doodle Bug," and off we went. The car did not give us a minute's trouble throughout the trip — up hill, down dale, across uncharted wastelands between super highways.

This term (within the US) will most likely be found in variant forms, such as: "up hill and dale", "over every hill and dale", and "up all hills, down all dales".

In addition, this term is more common within states of the New England area (Rhode Island, Massachusetts etc.)