long

Related to long: long division
See:
  • (as) happy as a clam
  • (as) happy as Larry
  • (as) happy as the day is long
  • (as) honest as the day is long
  • (as) nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
  • (one's) long home
  • a creaking door hangs longest
  • a creaking gate hangs longest
  • a face as long as a fiddle
  • a list as long as your arm
  • a little bit (of something) goes a long way
  • a little goes a long way
  • a long dozen
  • a long face
  • a long face, to wear/draw/pull
  • a long haul
  • a long leash
  • a long row to hoe
  • a long shot
  • a long stand
  • a long weight
  • a week is a long time in politics
  • ain’t long enough
  • ain't long enough
  • all day long
  • all night long
  • art is long and life is short
  • as long as
  • as long as (one's) arm
  • as long as your arm
  • as the day is long
  • as/so long as
  • at (long) last
  • at last
  • at long last
  • be a long shot
  • be as honest as the day is long
  • be in (something) for the long haul
  • be in something for the long haul
  • be long in the tooth
  • be not long for this world
  • before long
  • by a long chalk
  • by a long shot
  • cast a long shadow
  • come a long way
  • creaking door hangs longest
  • draw out
  • enjoy a long run
  • for (so) long
  • for long
  • for the long haul
  • for the short/medium/long term
  • go a long way
  • go a long way in (doing something)
  • go a long way toward
  • go a long way toward (doing something)
  • go a long way toward doing
  • go a long/some way towards doing something
  • go back a long way
  • go far
  • governments have long arms
  • happy as the day is long
  • happy as the day is long/as a clam/as Larry
  • have a long face
  • have a long memory
  • have a long way to go
  • have come a long way
  • haven't seen you in a long time
  • he laughs longest who laughs last
  • he lives long who lives well
  • he who laughs last laughs longest
  • he who laughs last, laughs longest
  • he who sups with the devil should have a long spoon
  • honest as the day is long
  • How long is a piece of string?
  • in (something) for the long haul
  • in the long haul
  • in the long run
  • in the long/medium/short term
  • in the short/medium/long term
  • it is a long lane that has no turning
  • It'll be a long day in January
  • it's a long story
  • it's as broad as it is long
  • it's as broad as it's long
  • kick (something) into the long grass
  • kick something into the long grass
  • king is dead, long live the king, the
  • Kings have long arms
  • kings have long hands
  • list as long as (one's) arm
  • little pitchers have long ears
  • live long and prosper
  • long about
  • long absent, soon forgotten
  • long ago
  • long and short of it, the
  • long and the short of it
  • long and the short of it/the matter, the
  • long arm
  • long arm of the law
  • long arm of the law, the
  • long as your arm
  • long bread
  • long dozen
  • long drink
  • long drink of water
  • long face
  • long finger
  • long for
  • long for (someone or something)
  • long game
  • long gone
  • long green
  • long hair, don't care
  • long haul
  • long home
  • long hours
  • long in the tooth
  • long knife
  • long leash
  • long memory
  • long on (something) and short on (something else)
  • long on one thing and short on another
  • long pig
  • long pork
  • long run
  • long shot
  • long shot, (not by) a
  • long shot, a
  • long since
  • long story short
  • long suit
  • long suit, one's
  • long time
  • long time no see
  • long time, no hear
  • longest way round is the shortest way home
  • long-playing record
  • long-run
  • long-tall-Sally
  • long-winded
  • make a long arm for (something)
  • make a long story short
  • make a long story short, to
  • merry as a cricket
  • merry as the day is long
  • night of the long knives
  • not (one's) long suit
  • not be long for this world
  • not by a long chalk
  • not by a long shot
  • not long for
  • not long for this world
  • not your long suit
  • old sins cast long shadows
  • old sins have long shadows
  • on the long finger
  • over the long haul
  • over the long term
  • put (something) on the long finger
  • put something on the long finger
  • short on (something) (and long on something else)
  • short reckonings make long friends
  • so long
  • so long as
  • so long, and thanks for all the fish
  • take a long look at something
  • take a long walk off a short pier
  • take a long walk on a short pier
  • take a long, hard look at (something)
  • take the (long) count
  • take the long count
  • take the long view
  • take the long way home
  • the king is dead, long live the king!
  • the long and (the) short of it
  • the long and short of it
  • the long and the short of it
  • the long arm of coincidence
  • the long arm of the law
  • the long tail
  • the longest pole knocks the persimmon
  • the longest way round is the nearest way home
  • the longest way round is the shortest way home
  • the short and the long of it
  • they that live longest see most
  • think long and hard
  • to cut a long story short
  • to make a long story short
  • too long; didn't read
  • tough/hard/long row to hoe, a
  • Why the long face?
  • will go a long way
  • with (someone or something) for (some amount of time)
  • yap, yap, yapping all day long
  • you're/we're a long time dead
References in classic literature
"You're a recordbreaker at rough-housin'." (Here Long's face showed pleasure.) "You ought to have the Police Gazette diamond belt for rough-bousin' baby buggies'.
The Long Noses form a peculiar company, under the direct patronage of the god Tingou.
It belongs to the same division of the Pachydermata with the rhinoceros, tapir, and palaeotherium; but in the structure of the bones of its long neck it shows a clear relation to the camel, or rather to the guanaco and llama.
Medlock saw it as soon as she did and drew a long sigh of relief.
Long she listened, thinking it was but the echo of their own plaintive song, but high above the music still sounded the sad, wailing cry.
From where they now stood they could look forward down a long vista of beech woods and jagged rock-strewn wilderness, all white with snow, to where the pass opened out upon the uplands beyond.
In the woods, after they had gone a long way from the road, Jesse stopped in an opening among the trees where a clearing, overgrown with small bushes, ran up from the creek.
But, in no long time after the physician's death, the wearer of the scarlet letter disappeared, and Pearl along with her.
Another voice answered, and then the first voice, which I now recognized to be Silver's, once more took up the story and ran on for a long while in a stream, only now and again interrupted by the other.
Adam was delighted and replied cordially; he had often heard his father speak of the older branch of the family with whom his people had long lost touch.
Now and then you might see the lights of a cigar store or of an all-night lunch counter; but the majority of the doors belonged to business places that had long since been closed.
He was loath to leave his brother alone all day long, and he was afraid his brother would laugh at him about it.
For a long time all went well; they lived in great comfort, and prospered so far as to be able to add considerably to their stores.
"That I am upon Barsoom is all that I can guess, and but for you and the great white apes I should not even guess that, for the sights I have seen this day are as unlike the things of my beloved Barsoom as I knew it ten long years ago as they are unlike the world of my birth.
As this whole volume is one long argument, it may be convenient to the reader to have the leading facts and inferences briefly recapitulated.