How long is a piece of string?



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

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
GraziaGRAHT-syahItalian
Hermenegildher-ME-ne-giltGerman
Bithiahbi-THIE-ə (English)Biblical
Azhar-Arabic, Urdu
Bityah-Biblical Hebrew
ChelleSHELEnglish