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How long is a piece of string?

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How long is a piece of string?

  (British & Australian)

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 'So how long does a project like that take?' 'How long's a piece of string?'

See also: how, long, of, piece