| 词汇 | a coon-s age |
| 词源 | a coon’s age. Meaning “a very long time,” a coon’s age is an Americanism recorded in 1843 and probably related to the old English expression “in a crow’s age,” meaning the same. The American term is an improvement, if only because the raccoon usually lives longer—up to 13 years in the wild—than the crow. |
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