| 单词 | forever and a day |
| 释义 | forever and a daySEE SYNONYMS FOR forever and a day ON THESAURUS.COM For a very long time, as in He's been working on that book forever and a day. This hyperbolic expression probably originated as a corruption of the now obsolete for ever and ay. Shakespeare used it in The Taming of the Shrew (4:4): “Farewell for ever and a day.” Today it is mainly a substitute for “very long time.” [c. 1600] Incessantly, ceaselessly, as in Will this racket never end? It's been going on forever and a day. [Colloquial; first half of 1900s] Words nearby forever and a dayforetopman, fore-topmast, fore-topsail, foretriangle, forever, forever and a day, forevermore, foreverness, forewarn, Forewarned is forearmed, forewaters 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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