be long
Synonyms
Examples
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.
The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.
If men were now to turn their hostility towards the cat, it would not be long before the domestic cat becomes a wild animal.
He who would be long an old man must begin betimes.
If you let them put the calf on your shoulders, it will not be long before they clap on the cow.