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
Francine	[fra:n'si:n]
Dani (2)	-	Hungarian, Spanish
QuÂN	-	Vietnamese
Diantha	-	Dutch, English (Rare)
Theophilus	thee-AHF-ə-ləs (English)	Biblical, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Tory (2)	TAWR-ee	English