long since
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Adverb
[edit]long since (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) Long ago; in the (distant) past.
- 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.
- 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
- Reluctantly Raj used his fingernail to prise away the bogie he had long since sneezed up there and popped it in his mouth.
Synonyms
[edit]- of old, way back; see also Thesaurus:long ago
Translations
[edit]long ago — see long ago