Noun
mists of time pl (plural only)
Any time so long ago that history is no longer clear, as though lost in a mist or fog.
lost in the mists of time
I'd never seen anyone go truly, old-school berserkergang, but that scream...It was like hearing an echo rolling down through the centuries from an ancient world, a more savage world, now lost to the mists of time. And suddenly I had no trouble at all believing her age. Jim Butcher
By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time. Erin McKean
Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past. Margaret Thatcher