donkey's ears

An exceptionally long period of time. The phrase likely originated as rhyming slang, where "ears" rhymes with "years" and alludes to the length of a donkey's ears. Throughout time, it became more popularized as "donkey's years." I haven't seen Jim in donkey's ears! How's he doing these days? It's been donkey's ears since we last got together like this.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Lanford	LAN-fərd	English (Rare)
CebriÁN	se-BRYAHN, the-BRYAHN	Spanish
Veniamin	vye-nee-ah-MEEN, vee-nee-ah-MEEN	Russian
Riordan	-	Irish
Lavrentiy	-	Russian
Taniqua	tə-NEE-kwə	African American (Rare)