Idiom
long time
Meaning
Used as part of greeting of two people who have not been in contact for a long time.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Long time no see, how are you?”
“I ran into my old classmate at the store and said, long time no see.”
“After years of silence, she sent a brief message to her former colleague, simply writing, long time no see.”
Examples
simple
“Long time no see, how are you?”
contextual
“I ran into my old classmate at the store and said, long time no see.”
complex
“After years of silence, she sent a brief message to her former colleague, simply writing, long time no see.”
Origin
A shortening of the phrase *It's been a long time (since...)*, with the pronoun *It* serving as the initial subject.
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