Idiom
many moons ago
Meaning
A (very) long time ago.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I visited that city many moons ago.”
“We were best friends many moons ago, but we lost touch after moving to different countries.”
“The old lighthouse, built many moons ago, still stands as a silent witness to the changing tides of the coast.”
Examples
simple
“I visited that city many moons ago.”
contextual
“We were best friends many moons ago, but we lost touch after moving to different countries.”
complex
“The old lighthouse, built many moons ago, still stands as a silent witness to the changing tides of the coast.”
Origin
The phrase alludes to the premodern reliance on lunar calendars, in which a moon served as the primary measure of a month. It preserves a time when the passage of months was tracked by the cycle of the satellite rather than the artificial divisions of a solar calendar.
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