单词 | month of sundays, a |
释义 | month of Sundays, aA 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. Words nearby month of Sundays, aamokura, amole, Amon, among, amongst, month of Sundays, a, amontillado, Amor, amora, amoral, Amor asteroid The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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