Wiktionary:Word of the day/2021/November 19

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Word of the day
for November 19
four score and seven years ago adv
  1. (idiomatic, often humorous) Used (sometimes sarcastically) to indicate that a past event being mentioned is particularly important: a long time ago; many years ago.

This phrase begins the Gettysburg Address, which was made by the United States President Abraham Lincoln on this day in 1863.

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