since Skippy was a pup

phrase

Since a very long time ago.

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  1. colloquialSince a very long time ago.

    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."

    1994, Walter Dean Myers, The Glory Field, page 227

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Chicago

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