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单词 forever and a day
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forever and a day
b. forever and a day: for all future time; for a very long time; = senses A. 1a, A. 1c. [Perhaps a folk-etymological alteration of forever and ay at Phrases 1a.]
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adverb] > for all future time or in perpetuity
evermoeeOE
evermorec1225
foreverc1275
for (also unto) evermore1348
for everlastinga1382
forever and a day1533
1533 T. Paynell tr. U. von Hutten De Morbo Gallico xi. f. 25v Let them bede farewell for euer and a daye [L. longum] to these, that go about to restore vs from diseases with theyr disputations.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. v. 23 Farewell for euer and a day.
1630 G. Hakewill Apologie (ed. 2) i. iii. 34 The Clowne waits till the foord be slidden all away, but still it slides, and will for euer and a day.
1823 T. Carlyle Let. 28 Sept. (1886) II. 225 One youth was to go to Germany, the other to Oxford, and I to take my leave I supposed for ever and a day.
1859 Female Skeptic iii. 35 Kept me waiting forever and a day!
1920 School 18 Mar. 282/3 They will be waiting forever and a day for dead men's shoes.
1967 Listener 18 May 656/3 How else can one explain why the Second Reform Bill of 1867 did not sweep the Conservatives from power for ever and a day?
1997 J. Kadi in S. Raffo Queerly Classed 35 Lies about backward, unenlightened poor people have been around for ever and a day.
2003 S. Brown Free Gift Inside! 104 Diamonds became a totemic keepsake.., something special that is given, prized, and kept for ever and a day.
extracted from foreveradv.n.adj.
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