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Idiom

blue moon

Meaning

A long time.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“I have not seen him in a blue moon.”

“It has been a blue moon since we last visited our old family home in the countryside.”

“After a blue moon spent traveling through distant lands, the explorer finally returned to find his hometown completely transformed by time.”

Examples

simple

“I have not seen him in a blue moon.”

contextual

“It has been a blue moon since we last visited our old family home in the countryside.”

complex

“After a blue moon spent traveling through distant lands, the explorer finally returned to find his hometown completely transformed by time.”

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