n.
period between successive perigees; approximately 27.5546 days

flavor of the month Idiom, Proverb

a month of Sundays

a very long time, many days It will take a month of Sundays to phone the students in our school.

month of Sundays

(See a month of Sundays)

by the month

Idiom(s): by the month

Theme: TIME

one month at a time.
• Not many apartments are rented by the month.
• I needed a car for a short while, so I rented one by the month.

in a month of Sundays

Idiom(s): in a coon's age AND in a month of Sundays

Theme: TIME

in a very long time. (Folksy. The coon is a raccoon.)
• How are you? I haven't seen you in a coon's age.
• I haven't had a piece of apple pie this good in a coon's age.
• John hasn't seen a movie in a month of Sundays.

month of Sundays|Sunday|Sundays|month

n. phr., informal A very long time.

Used for emphasis after "for" or "in" and usually with a negative verb. I have not had devil's food cake in a month of Sundays. When he got her first letter, he felt that he had not heard from her for a month of Sundays.
Synonym: DOG'S AGE.

month

month
In addition to the idiom beginning with month, also see by the day; on end.

month of Sundays, a

month of Sundays, a
A long time, as in I haven't seen Barbara in a month of Sundays. This expression, which would literally mean thirty weeks, has been used hyperbolically since it was first recorded in 1832. One writer suggests it originally connoted a long dreary time, since games and other kinds of amusement used to be forbidden on Sunday.

flavor of the month

Something temporary. The byword is generally acclimated to call cursory adventurous relationships. I wouldn't get too absorbed to Katie, she's aloof Ralph's acidity of the month—they'll breach up in no time. You change majors all the time, and analysis is aloof the acidity of the month, assurance me!Learn more: flavor, month, of

flavour of the month

mainly BRITISHCOMMON If addition or article is flavour of the month, they are actual accepted at the moment. Note: `Flavour' is spelled `flavor' in American English. One minute you're flavour of the month, top of the anthology charts, and the abutting minute you're forgotten. Filmstars assume to be absorbed in whatever account is the latest flavour of the month. Note: Bodies sometimes acknowledgment added periods of time such as year, week, or moment instead of month. Monetarism was the flavour of the year. Suddenly, he was flavour of the moment on both abandon of the Atlantic. Note: These expressions are generally acclimated to advance that the acceptance of addition or article is absurd to aftermost long. Note: American ice chrism parlours acclimated to baddest a accurate flavour of the ages in adjustment to animate bodies to try altered flavours of ice cream. Learn more: flavour, month, of

flavour of the month

addition or article that enjoys a abbreviate aeon of abundant popularity; the accepted fashion. This byword originated in a business attack in American ice-cream parlours in the 1940s, back a accurate flavour of ice chrism would be singled out anniversary ages for appropriate promotion.Learn more: flavour, month, of

flavour of the ˈmonth

(especially British English) a being who is abnormally accepted at the moment: If I were you, I’d accumulate quiet at the agents meeting. You’re not absolutely flavour of the ages with the bang-up at the moment.In the past, ice chrism companies in the US would accept a accurate flavour anniversary ages to acquaint in their stores.Learn more: flavour, month, of

flavor of the month

A briefly arresting or accepted person, product, or trend. The appellation originated in the 1930s in the ice chrism industry, area a accurate acidity of ice chrism was answer anniversary month. Since the backward 1900s, it has been acclimated ironically to animadversion on a brief success of some kind. For example, “Their new anthology is the acidity of the month, but I agnosticism that it’ll survive.”Learn more: flavor, month, of

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