A long time, as in I haven't seen Barbara in a month of Sundays. This expression, which would literally mean thirty weeks, has been used hyperbolically since it was first recorded in 1832. One writer suggests it originally connoted a long
dreary time, since games and other kinds of amusement used to be forbidden on Sunday.
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