English Reference

Idiom

long time no hear

Meaning

I haven't heard from you for a long time.

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

Examples

“Long time no hear, how are you doing?”

“I saw your name in my inbox and thought, long time no hear, so I decided to reach out.”

“After years of silence, she sent a brief message saying, long time no hear, hoping to reconnect with her old friend.”

Examples

simple

“Long time no hear, how are you doing?”

contextual

“I saw your name in my inbox and thought, long time no hear, so I decided to reach out.”

complex

“After years of silence, she sent a brief message saying, long time no hear, hoping to reconnect with her old friend.”

Origin

Modelled on earlier long time no see.

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