for a coon's age

Related to for a coon's age: in a month of Sundays

for a coon's age

For an exceptionally long period of time. Based on the folk belief that raccoons (shortened colloquially to "coons") have a longer-than-average lifespan. I could work on this project for a coon's age, and I still wouldn't get it all done! I haven't been on a vacation for a coon's age.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

for (or in) a coon's age

a very long time. North American informal
1951 William Styron Lie Down in Darkness I haven't seen him in a coon's age.
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  • coon
  • coon's age
  • coon's age, a
  • in a coon's age
  • a coon's age
  • raccoon
  • a whale of a
  • in donkeys
  • bigger they come, the harder they fall, the
  • the bigger they are, the harder they fall