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long since en · ADV
Pronunciation
Meanings
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(idiomatic, not-comparable) Long ago; in the (distant) past.
Reluctantly Raj used his fingernail to prise away the bogie he had long since sneezed up there and popped it in his mouth.
2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:I don't know why he asked me to do that, when I had long since finished it.
The building has long since been demolished.
Relateds
lang syne
Synonyms
way back · of old