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Sentence #3871612

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 patgfisher patgfisher February 16, 2015, edited February 16, 2015 February 16, 2015 at 5:54:17 AM UTC, edited February 16, 2015 at 5:56:14 AM UTC flag Report link Permalink

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"how long's a piece of string?" (idiom British and Australian) is something that you say when someone asks you a question that you cannot answer about how big something is or how much time something will take.

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"How long do you think it'll take?" "How long's a piece of string?"

added by patgfisher, February 16, 2015
➜ #10250384"Tavuprāt, cik garu tas prasīs?" "Cik garu auklas gabalu?"

linked by GemMonkey, August 19, 2021