Synonyms

long_since lang_syne

Examples

"We met once long ago" "they long ago forsook their nomadic life" "left for work long ago" "he has long since given up mountain climbing" "This name has long since been forgotten"

Used in print

A freshman girl 's father not too long_ago called a dean at Brooklyn_College and demanded the `` low-down '' on a boy who was going_out with his daughter .

It is a question which New_Englanders long_ago put out of their minds .

It ignores the sordid financial aspects ( quite conveniently , too , for his audience , who could indulge in moral indignation without visible , or even conscious , discomfort , their money from the transaction having been put_away long_ago in a good antiseptic brokerage ) .

And here again we hear the same refrain mentioned above : `` The paramount goal of the United_States , set long_ago , was to guard the rights of the individual , ensure his development , enlarge his opportunity '' .

Long_ago they consigned the notions of Kyne and Dixon to the scrap_heap .