Donkeys Years

Related to donkey's years: I haven't been here in donkey's years—I can't believe how much the town has changed. A long time, as in I haven't seen her in donkey's years. This expression punningly alludes to the considerable length of the animal's ears. If something lasts or has been happening for donkey's years , it lasts or has been happening for a very long time. I've been a vegetarian for donkey's years.

He owns some old iron mines that haven't been used in donkey's years. References in periodicals archive?

Nat, who has had a boob job, said: It seems that for most of his writing career, Aidan Higgins has been preparing for Donkey's Years. Memories of a Life as Story Told. WE all know donkey's years means a long time but Tootsie the mule proves the point - he's a record-breaking Tootsie's been alive for donkey's years.. For donkey's years , the age at which you can claim your state pension benefits has been 65 for men and 60 for women.

The expressions use as Cockney rhyming slang is long predated by it being used in being used with no CRS connection. The first example of the expression 'donkey's years' that I can find in print is from The Salisbury Times , July Didn't you ask him how long it had been in his possession?

I can't recollect that. I might have done so. Didn't he say for years and years and donkey's years? This is getting on for a hundred years earlier than any use of 'donkey's years' as rhyming slang, which isn't found in print with a rhyming slang connection until the s.

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Donkey's ears works as rhyming slang whereas donkey's years doesn't. In rhyming slang the last word of a short phrase is rhymed with the word that gives the slang meaning; for example, trouble and strife - wife , apples and pears - stairs , etc.

It makes little sense for the phrase to have originated in slang form as donkey's years , as that would rhyme 'years' with 'years'. Donkey's years may have been chosen as a synonym for a long time simply because donkeys are long-lived animals. Lively Laddie , a donkey who had lived up to his name for many years while plying his trade on Blackpool Pleasure Beach was, until his death at age 62, a contender for the 'oldest living quadruped' title.