SYNONYMES DE «DONKEY'S YEARS» EN ANGLAIS
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synonymes en anglais de donkey's years
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CITATIONS EN ANGLAIS AVEC «DONKEY'S YEARS»
Citations et phrases célèbres avec le mot
donkey's years.
I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it comes to setting up a band for live. Derrick has been with me for donkey's years.
10 LIVRES EN ANGLAIS EN RAPPORT AVEC «DONKEY'S YEARS»
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donkey's years dans la sélection bibliographique suivante. Des livres en rapport avec
donkey's years et de courts extraits de ceux-ci pour replacer dans son contexte son utilisation littéraire.
Donkey's Years and Dog Days were the first two volumes of these remarkable memoirs, of which The Whole Hog now completes the Higgins Bestiary.
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The Little Book of Clichés
Perhaps the fact that donkeys can live for a long time influenced the move away
from the rhyming slang to the plain and simple 'donkey's years'. How to use it... '
For some inexplicable reason, I have not felt able to speak in plain English for ...
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The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and ...
Avariation of DONKEY'S YEARS UK,1984 donkey shins thank you. Intentionally
butchered German US, 1990 donkey sightnoun an imprecisebut easily
manoeuvredmanual sightonatank'smaingun US, 1990 donkeystyle adjective (
usedof sex) ...
Terry Victor, Tom Dalzell, 2007
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The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
donkey. for donkey's years for a very long time. informal For donkey's years is a
pun referring to the length of a donkey's ears and playing on a former
pronunciation of years as ears. 1998 Ardal O'HanlonThe Talk of the Town He'll
be no loss, ...
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
Donkey's years (MP 181) 1968 "I've been seeing the name for donkey's years." (p
. 10) Greenwood, John. Mists Over Mosley. 1968. New York: Bantam Books,
1987. 1984 "Donkey's years!" (p. 194) Hill, Reginald. Exit Lines. 1984. New York:
...
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 2005
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
A very long time; var. of donkey's years: since ca. 1940 (?earlier). (P.B.) donkey's
breakfast. (Orig. a man's) straw hat: Cockneys': 1893; slightly ob. Ware.-—2. A
bundle of straw for a bed: nautical:-1901. OED Sup.—3. Hence, a straw mattress:
...
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□ * donkey work ; ; SftW^H (f (I'm sick of such donkey world ScStia to talk the ...
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Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago: On ...
(2000) donkey years donkey years, donkeys years phr A very long time. (<E
donkey's years 'a very long time') ◊ 'Remember Mon Repos?' 'Oh, girl! You talking
about donkeys years now. He was only about nine then.' (Anthony 1965:66) ◊ “
Les, ...
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The Theatre Arts Audition Book for Women
... terrible nostalgic scene, because I don't feel like that about it. I never think
about the past. I'm far too busy with the present. I lead a very active life. I just
came to see how you were and to tell you how I was, and I'm fine, I'm 6 Donkey's
Years.
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Hospital English: The Brilliant Learning Workbook for ...
'I don't think so, my luv, I expect she said she's had it for donkey's years!' and
burst out laughing. It means, apparently, for many years, or as many years as you
can remember. How was I to know? I felt that small. 4.3.a Listen to your
colleagues ...
10 ACTUALITÉS CONTENANT LE TERME «DONKEY'S YEARS»
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donkey's years est employé dans le contexte des actualités suivantes.
Budget 2015 reaction: looking after the better off at the expense of …
Happy days if you're someone sitting in a nice big house you bought for next to nothing donkey's years ago which is in an area that's turned ... «Liverpool Echo, juil 15»
10 reasons Origin III will be a ripsnorter
Game two was the best contest we've seen in donkey's years, and all power to the whistle blowers who let it happen, in the sincere hope they ... «Fox Sports, juil 15»
Scot Gov makes headway in cutting farm red tape
We need to get Europe to modernise because I think the way they operate is donkey's years out of date.” Rural Affairs Secretary Richard ... «FG Insight, juil 15»
European Wealth's bolt-on strategy reaping rewards
"It's almost creating a new way of saving and having as much effect as the introduction of ISAs and PEPs did donkey's years ago. One can't ... «Proactive Investors UK, juil 15»
APC And Change Momentum
To think that after donkey's years of the winner of an election taking all, even if it meant putting square pegs in round holes, or asserting ... «The Tide, juil 15»
Tears shed as Wales falls silent to remember the victims of the …
"I knew her for donkey's years," she said. "Everybody knew her. She was lovely, bubbly, laughing and joking away. Pictured is one of Trudy's ... «WalesOnline, juil 15»
Time to have historic clock ticking again
It's been stopped for donkey's years. They made the wind into an electric mechanism in the 1970s and it didn't work all that well so we're taking ... «Oxford Mail, juil 15»
Magic Mike XXL – strippers' verdict: 'A public liability claim waiting to …
Our show didn't have any until about four years ago – and it's been going for donkey's years. But I had to listen to what the customers were ... «The Guardian, juil 15»
Superfoods – are kale, coconut oil and goji berries really all that …
While kale and cabbages have obviously been around for donkey's years, the term 'superfood' hasn't, but when something is granted the ... «BT.com, juin 15»
Leading Tory calls for end to protection of NHS budget
Mr Porter, who becomes chair of the LGA this week, is a former bricklayer who was once a union official for the TGWU “donkey's years ago”. «Financial Times, juin 15»
