the dim and distant past
mainlyUK
atimein the past that is notclearlyremembered:
遥远模糊的过去I used toenjoydancing, back in thedimanddistantpast.很久以前，我曾经非常喜欢跳舞。
In the past
- ago
- any moreidiom
- anymore
- back in the dayidiom
- back thenidiom
- clock
- departed
- dim
- flood
- mist
- moon
- more
- no longeridiom
- non-current
- rewind the clockidiom
- sometime
- step
- step back (in time)idiom
- the mists of timeidiom
- the status quo ante
Examplesofthe dim and distant past
the dim and distant past
Instead, descriptions of friction with the king, civil disobedience or electoral disputes were relegated tothedimanddistantpast.
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Inthedimanddistantpastit was considered virtuous to daub sheep with tar.
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We are talking not of a technology relating tothedimanddistantpast.
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I am referring tothedimanddistantpast.
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We had some sort of stability with the gold standard way back inthedimanddistantpast.
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But none of the criminal and violent acts committed by the prisoners who will be released occurred inthedimanddistantpast.
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There is anecdotal evidence of maintenance inthedimanddistantpastby the agency's predecessor, by the water company and by the local authority.
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Inthedimanddistantpasthe was a member of a previous government.
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If the civil servant who invented that phrase inthedimanddistantpasthas a patent on it, he must have made a fortune.
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Any differences which may have existed inthedimanddistantpasthave surely long since disappeared.
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This group, set up inthedimanddistantpastin 1998, now needs to be adapted to deal with the increasingly urgent development of the internal market.
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Criticism has been offered of the actions of the present occupants of those offices, because, inthedimanddistantpast, they held certain views about free imports.
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History is not just aboutthedimanddistantpast, it's happening right now.
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- inconsequential
- inconsequentially
- inconsiderable
- inconsiderate
- inconsiderately
- inconsiderateness
- inconsistency
- inconsistent
- inconsistently
- inconsolable
- inconsolably
- inconspicuous
- inconspicuously
- inconstancy
- inconstant
- in constant touch
- incontestable
- incontestably
- incontinence
- incontinent
- incontrovertible
- incontrovertible evidence
- incontrovertible fact
- incontrovertibly
- inconvenience