before long
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Soon, in the near future, as in The baby will be teething before long. This idiom was first recorded in 1865.
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Words nearby before long
beflowered, befog, befool, before, beforehand, before long, before the wind, beforetime, before you can say Jack Robinson, before you know it, befoul
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