| 单词 | way back when |
| 释义 | > as lemmasway back when way back when: [short for ‘way back’ followed by a clause introduced by ‘when’ indicating to a time long past] (a) used as a title for an anecdote or narrative of times past (now rare); (b) a long time ago. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb] > long ago yorec900 for longOE langer1303 long agoc1350 far1362 for yorea1375 of yore ago(ne)a1375 long time1376 of olda1393 anciently1502 langsyne?a1513 oldlya1513 in old season1582 old1609 antiquely1652 then-a-days1688 (the) year one1754 way back1870 in yore1876 way back when1921 1921 Hosp. Managem. Feb. 51/2 A popular feature of a metropolitan newspaper is a ‘Way Back When’ column which appears daily under the stereotyped heading ‘Do You Remember Way Back When’ and the readers contribute some reminder or other of the good old days. 1923 Rotarian June 336/1 Occasionally I have contributed..a ‘Way Back When’ recollection to the ‘Wake of the News’. 1931 S. Thompson (title) Way back when; recollections of an octogenarian. 1951 Jrnl. Amer. Water Wks Assoc. 43 1 ‘Medication’, or even worse ‘mass medication’, has been plaguing fluoridationists almost ever since it was introduced innocently enough way back when. 1984 Sounds 1 Dec. 58/6 Relative newcomers aren't always in the best position to explain what happened way back when. 1994 L. Erdrich Bingo Palace ix. 105 Zelda lives in the original log house from way back when, a place..added to over years gone by with layer on layer of Sheetrock and plaster. 1998 T. Clancy Rainbow Six xx. 381 The Worldpark job was as good a bit of sorting out as I have ever seen, even better than the Iranian Embassy job in London, way back when. < as lemmas |
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