year dot
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Pronunciation edit
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun edit
- (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 edit
a very long time ago
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Further reading edit
- Year Dot, in LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus.