since Skippy was a pup
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[edit]- (colloquial) Since a very long time ago.
- 1994, Walter Dean Myers, The Glory Field, page 227:
- Skeeter inhaled through his nose. "Then I thought I heard something, and—you know how the grass in my backyard is long near the fence?"
"Should be," Robert Lewis said. "You haven't cut it since Skippy was a pup."