literary

1. a long time ago.

Once upon a time there lived a young girl called Cinderella.

2. if you say that something happened once upon a time, you mean that it happened in the past and you wish that it still happened now.

Once upon a time, everyone knew each other in this town and nobody bothered locking their doors.

• put something out of mind
• put something out of misery
• put something out of their misery
• put something out of your mind
• put something over the top
• put something right
• put something through
• put something through paces
• put something through their paces
• put something to bed
• put something to sleep
• put something to the test
• put something toward
• put something toward something
• put something under the microscope
• put stick in two penn'orth
• put stick in your two penn'orth
• put swh on the map
• put teeth into
• put teeth into something
• Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
• put the arm on
• put the arm on someone
• put the ball in court
• put the ball in someone's court