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Meaning: (idiomatic,informal)A verylongtime; aperiodregardedas too long.[from mid 18th c.]Synonyms:eternity,(bothhyperbolic)forever,week of Saturdays,(both informal)week of Sundays;see alsoThesaurus:eonIt seems like it’s been amonth of Sundayssince we saw him last.1759, Hamilton Murray[pseudonym], chapter X, inThe Life and Real Adventures of Hamilton Murray.[…], London:[…]J. Burd,[…],→OCLC,pages120–121:[T]he captain had ordered his back to be anointed with ſome pickle, by way of preſerving ſome mortification, which increaſed his agony ſo intolerably, that he exhibited the various contorſions and wreathings of a rattle ſnake with ſurprizing velocity, to the no ſmall edification of the commander, who ſwore he ſhould dance to the ſecond part of the ſame tune, for amonth of Sundays; ſtill repeating the word citation, which he could neither underſtand, nor digeſt.1808,[George Colman the Younger],Presume Not beyond Measure: A Serio-comic Letter of Advice, Addressed to the Editors of All the Public Papers.[…], London:[…]J[ohn]Hatchard,[…],→OCLC,page14:Let the Sunday papers have their day: it is all they have; though it would require amonth of Sundaysto read all they publish upon it.1850, [Charles Kingsley], “The Plush Breeches Tragedy”, inAlton Locke, Tailor and Poet.[…], volume II, London:Chapman and Hall,[…],→OCLC,page71:Why, what an orator you are! Really, I haven't heard more fluent or passionate English thismonth of Sundays.1883,Hodgson Pratt, “On the Same[Art in Large Towns. In what Way Can the Influence of Art be Best Brought to Bear on the Masses of the Population in Large Towns?]”, inTransactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science.[…], London:Longmans, Green, and Co.,→OCLC, section V (Art),page595:From many quarters in London even a park is far distant, while we havemonths of Sundayswhich are wet and cold, when the dens where many people live would be preferred because affording shelter from the weather.1915December, “Hodder and Stoughton’s Christmas List of Novels[advertisement]”, inThe Bookman, volume XLIX, number291, London; New York, N.Y.:Hodder and Stoughton[…],→OCLC,page xv, column 4:The most vivacious, sparkling, entertaining piece of comedy you are likely to come across in amonth of Sundays.1973,Matt Braun, chapter 3, inEl Paso, New York, N.Y.:St. Martin’s Paperbacks, publishedJuly 1999,→ISBN,page203:Just what do you hope to gain by badgering my people down here? They're not going to spill their guts to you in amonth of Sundays.2001, David Michael Smith, “Balsam Fir”, inStories from the Manger, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press,iUniverse,→ISBN,page31:["]But if I told you the rest of the truth, you wouldn't believe me anyway." / "Try me." / "Guarantee it, you won't," the man teases. "Not in amonth of Sundays."2002May,Alexandra Morton, chapter 3, inListening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us, 1st trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.:Ballantine Books, publishedJune 2004,→ISBN,page28:As I listened to the tapes overmonths of Sundays, it became clear that I would not work with [John] Lilly. I was more interested in the dolphins speaking to dolphins than in the attempts to teach them our language.2014, Lois Shepheard, “The Controversial Marriage”, inBlack McIntosh to Gold, Carindale, Qld.: Glass House Books,→ISBN,page187:Over the years, she'd visited the McIntoshes and also her daughters in Sydney but she had never, in amonth of Sundays, dreamed she would live there herself.2015, James Grissom,Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog(A Borzoi Book), New York, N.Y.:Alfred A[braham] Knopf,→ISBN,page50:I [Tennessee Williams] told her [Eva Le Gallienne] I had, indeed, read the plays of Mr.[Henrik] Ibsen, had seen them in numerous productions, and found them to be quite like the act of eating a box of soap flakes, when they were not like twomonths of Sundaysin church.
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