Word info

along about

Preposition

Meaning

along about

(idiomatic, informal) Approximately; at around some time.
If you ask for it back Sunday he might return it along about Wednesday.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries. Jim Butcher

Along about eighteen and twenty-five I left Tennessee very much alive I never would have got through the Arkansas mud If I hadn't been a-ridin on the Tennessee stud. Jimmy Driftwood

There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world. Sylvia Earle

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