since Skippy was a pup
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Phrase
since Skippy was a pup
- (colloquial) Since a very long time ago.
- 1994, Walter Dean Myers, The Glory Field (page 227)
- Skeeter inhaled through his nose. "Then I thought I heard something, and—you know how the grass in my backyard is long near the fence?"
"Should be," Robert Lewis said. "You haven't cut it since Skippy was a pup."
- Skeeter inhaled through his nose. "Then I thought I heard something, and—you know how the grass in my backyard is long near the fence?"
- 1994, Walter Dean Myers, The Glory Field (page 227)