from here to Sunday
- idiom
- Informal
:
hasta el infinito
- You can argue from here to Sunday, but it won't change my mind.
Examples
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She cleaned the house from here to Sunday before the guests arrived.
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The shop was packed from here to Sunday during the holiday sale.
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I could talk about this from here to Sunday!
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You can complain from here to Sunday, but nothing will change.
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She'll keep discussing that topic from here to Sunday, and it never gets boring.
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You can argue from here to Sunday, and I still won't agree with you.
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The kids were excited to play outside from here to Sunday every day of the summer.
Synonyms
65
2.2
Happens again and again for many days in a row
37
3.6
Happens every day for a long time in the same boring way
1
5.3
For a very long time with no clear end
A very long time that seems to last forever
Antonyms
How Long
- Archaic
- Informal
69
3.9
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
from + here + to + Sunday
The phrase literally names a time span (from here until Sunday), so a learner who knows the words can infer a temporal sense and possibly guess it means 'for a long time' as a hyperbolic extension. However, the conventionalized, exaggerated use (and the additional sense of 'thoroughly' or 'excessively') is idiomatic and not fully predictable from the parts, so full comprehension without exposure is uncertain for a B1 learner.
Etymology
From here to Sunday comes from a simple picture: starting here and going all the way to Sunday, so it suggests a very long time or a large amount. That's why people use it to mean 'for a long time' or 'completely'.