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from way back

Since long ago; for a long time. For example, This painting has been in the family from way back, or We know the Smiths from way back. [Colloquial; late 1800s]

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old-time, skilled, trained, wise, expert, versed, pro, steady, adept, old, vet, hardened, practical, practiced, proficient, sophisticated, worldly, battle-scarred, disciplined, exercised

Nearby words

from the sublime to the ridiculous, from the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step, from the word go, from this day forward, from time to time, from way back, fromage, fromage frais, frome, fromentin, fromenty
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