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idiomyearsfor donkey's years BrEBrEspoken for a very long time:I haven't seen Nicola for donkey's years.Those pills have been on the shelf for donkey's years.not/never in a million yearsspoken used in order to say that you are very unlikely to do something:"He makes ten dollars an hour driving that van? - I would never have guessed in a million years.""Can you imagine Jerry going to an art gallery?" "No way in a million years."sth puts years on sb(also sth puts ten, fifteen etc years on sb)spoken used in order to say that something, often a bad experience, makes someone look older:Harvey's job's put years on him, he looks terrible.It puts ten years on you when you wear you hair that way.opposite take years off sb: She's lost a little weight and it's taken years off her.roll back the years BrEBrEto remind people or yourself of the past, by doing things that you used to do:Jimmy Connors may be past his prime but he can still roll back the years, as he showed at a charity tennis tournament.Get out your platform shoes and loon pants and come and roll back the years at our Seventies Music Night. (redirected from years)
See:- (one's) autumn years
- advanced in years
- all year round
- along in years
- be light years away
- be light years away from
- be on in years
- big year
- by the day
- by the year
- calendar year
- Christmas comes but once a year
- days running
- dog's years
- donkey’s years
- donkey's years
- first hundred years are the hardest
- for (some) years running
- for donkey's years
- four score and seven years ago
- frighten (one) out of a year's growth
- frighten one out of wits
- from the year dot
- from, since, etc. the year dot
- full of years
- get on in years
- getting on (in years)
- golden years
- in an age of years
- in years
- Keep a thing seven years and you'll find a use for it
- never in a million years
- never in a thousand years
- not in a million years
- not in a thousand years
- Not in a thousand years! and Never in a thousand years!
- not/never in a hundred, etc. years
- of mature years
- on in years
- one's sunset years
- pushing on in years
- put years on (one)
- put years on somebody
- put years on someone
- ring in the new year
- roll back the years
- salad years
- scare (one) out of a year's growth
- see you next year
- seven-year itch
- since the year dot
- so last year
- spend (some amount of time) in (some place)
- stricken in years
- sunset years
- take years off
- take years off (of) (one)
- take years off somebody
- the first hundred years are the hardest
- the seven year itch
- the seven-year itch
- the turn of the century
- the turn of the century/year
- the turn of the year
- the vale of years
- the year dot
- twilight years
- up in years
- wear (one's) years well
- well up in years
- year after year
- year by year
- year dot
- year in, (and) year out
- year in, year out
- year on year
- year round
- years running
- you should know a man seven years before you stir his fire
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