year dot

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

year dot

1. (idiomatic, British, Ireland) A very long time ago, from the beginning or as far back as one can remember.

   Synonym: (Australia, NZ) day dot

   That hat dates from the year dot.

   • 1989 June, Phil South, “Rage Hard”, in Your Sinclair magazine‎^[1], archived from the original on 2012-03-10:

     Disk interfaces have been around since the year dot, as people soon realised that the microdrive was unreliable, unstable and generally rubbish for the storage of anything, useless except as a rather small beermat.

Translations

a very long time ago

• Catalan: any de la picor (ca)
• Finnish: vuosi yksi ja kaksi
• German: anno dazumal (de)
• Russian: во вре́мя о́но (vo vrémja óno)
• Spanish: año de la nana, año de la pera, año de la polca, tiempos de Maricastaña

Further reading

• Year Dot, in LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus.