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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

  1. from the sublime to the ridiculous,
  2. from the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step,
  3. from the word go,
  4. from this day forward,
  5. from time to time,
  6. fromage,
  7. fromage frais,
  8. frome,
  9. fromentin,
  10. fromenty
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.