for long

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   for (such) a long time

In the movies · 92

• put up with me for so long, huh?Venom: Let There Be Carnage2021
• I've been running from it for so long.The Lion King1994
• It just got hungrier and hungrier.Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room2005
• Not for longDark Phoenix2019
• Not for long.Venom: Let There Be Carnage2021
• But not for long.Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas2003
• But not for long.Samaritan2022
• For long enough.Unhinged2020

Learn it in full scenes

• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room2005
  • Enron's Dabhol Plant in Ruins
  • Fastow Admits Both Sides
  • Skilling Loses It on the Call

From the same entry

• as long as your arm
• at long last
• at the longest
• by a long way
• go back a long way
• go a long way
• have come a long way
• have a long way to go
• how long is a piece of string
• in the long run
• it's a long story
• the long arm of

More idioms

• the name of the game
• be here to stay
• there is no question of
• come in handy
• lose your mind
• along the road
• at long last
• don't sweat it
• from day one
• go your own way
• take your mind off
• break the news