time out of mind
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of time out of mind
First recorded in 1470–80
Example Sentences
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The alligator lizards and their prey live on together, as they have since time out of mind.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2022
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2022
For time out of mind, or at least as far back as Robert Flaherty's 1926 "Moana" and F.W.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2016
Of those few, many fewer know the "correct," classical language, in which all Chinese masterpieces have been written, time out of mind.
From Time Magazine Archive
This all happened long, long ago, in time out of mind, in the days when the gods still walked the earth.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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