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词组 donkey's years; donkeys' years; donkeys
释义 donkey's years; donkeys' years; donkeys
noun
a very long time UK, 1916
A pun on the length and sound of a “donkey’s ears”.
  • Dibbs even brought his pet parrot Percy in, he’s had it for donkeys’ and it meant the world to him[.] — Roy Slaven (John Doyle), Five South Coast Seasons, p. 14, 1992
  • The two of them had known each other for donkey’s years, even when Mick was a civvy[.] — Andy McNab (writing of the late 1970s/early 80s), Immediate Action, p. 161, 1995
  • We even gave him a few old books that have been knocking around donkeys, not of donkeys you understand but shit that’s been on the premises too fuckin long and ain’t movin. — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 27, 2000
  • [M]y old man and his generation who had to go round “courting” for donkey’s years before getting a sniff. — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 29, 2001
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