单词 | back in the day |
释义 | > as lemmasback in the day (occasionally days) back in the day (occasionally days): (esp. in African-American use) in the past; some time ago. ΚΠ 1910 J. A. Lomax Cowboy Songs & Other Frontier Ballads 307 Back in the day when I was young, I knew a man named Hods; He wasn't fit fer nothin' 'cep turnin' up the clods. 1947 Tipton (Indiana) Daily Tribune 25 July 2/1 Back in that day, nearly a century and a half ago, newspapers must have had no shortage of newsprint.] 1986 ‘Beastie Boys’ Girls (transcript of song) in odin.prohosting.com/bboylyr (O.E.D. Archive) Back in the day There was this girl around the way. 1994 Vibe Nov. 78/3 Back in the day there were Josephine Baker, Billie Holliday, Sarah Vaughan, and Lena Horne. 1998 R. Price Freedomland i. ii. 48 Jesse had known one of them from back in the day. 2003 E. McLaughlin & N. Kraus Nanny Diaries iii. 73 One drunken night when your buddies from ‘back in the day’ called me a ho. < as lemmas |
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