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.