an egg's age
English
Noun
an egg's age
- (US, slang, dated) A very long time.
- 1922, Thomas Lansing Masson, Our American Humorists (page 201)
- Nothing about my natural charms no more, an egg's age since anybody had called me to 1 side and whispered "I got a T. L. for you. Gertie thinks your ears is immense."
- 1928, New York Herald Tribune Books (volume 4, issues 1-11, page 21)
- As entertaining a book as you will find in an egg's age.
- 1922, Thomas Lansing Masson, Our American Humorists (page 201)