forever and a day

1. 1.

   for a very long or seemingly endless time

   “she took forever to write the paper”

   “we had to wait forever and a day”

   Synonymsforever

   colloquialism

Questions about forever and a day

What does forever and a day mean?

forever and a day means "for a very long or seemingly endless time".

What is another word for forever and a day?

Close synonyms include forever. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is forever and a day a common word?

forever and a day is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.