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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?'
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Adeline | | a-də-LEEN (French), AD-ə-lien (English) | French, English |
Fern | | [fə:n] | |
Medb | | - | Irish Mythology |
Gwillym | | - | Welsh |
Herodes | | - | Ancient Greek, Biblical Greek, Biblical Latin |
Mauri | | MOW-ree | Finnish |