donkey's years 成语
donkey's years
a very long time I talked to my friend for a long time because I hadn't seen her in donkey's years.
For donkey's years
(UK) If people have done something, usually without much if any change, for an awfully long time, they can be said to have done it for donkey's years.
In donkey's years
'I haven't seen her in donkey's years.' - This means for a very long time.
donkey's years
A continued time. I haven't been actuality in donkey's years—I can't accept how abundant the boondocks has changed.Learn more: yeardonkey's years
A continued time, as in I haven't apparent her in donkey's years. This announcement punningly alludes to the ample breadth of the animal's ears. [Early 1900s] Learn more: yeardonkey's years
BRITISH, INFORMALIf article lasts or has been accident for donkey's years, it lasts or has been accident for a actual continued time. I've been a vegetarian for donkey's years. He owns some old adamant mines that haven't been acclimated in donkey's years. Note: This announcement was originally `as continued as donkey's ears', which are actual long. The change to `donkey's years' may accept appear about partly because the announcement is acclimated to allocution about time, and partly because the aboriginal anatomy is difficult to say clearly. Learn more: yearˈdonkey’s years
(British English, informal) a actual continued time: She’s lived in that abode for donkey’s years.This is a comedy on words amid ‘years’ and ‘ears’, the antic actuality that donkeys accept continued ears.Learn more: yeardonkey’s years
n. a continued time. (From British colloquial.) I haven’t apparent you in donkey’s years. Learn more: yeardonkey's years
A continued time. The agent actuality is disputed. Some say it is a balladry appellation for donkey’s ears, which are absolutely long, and possibly additionally a amusing allusion to the Cockney accentuation of “years” as “ears”; others accept it alludes to donkeys actuality absolutely long-lived. The announcement dates alone from the backward nineteenth century. Edward Lucas acclimated it in The Vermilion Box (1916): “Now for my aboriginal ablution for what the men alarm ‘donkey’s years,’ acceptation years and years.”Learn more: year
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