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老半天
lǎo​bàn​tiān

a long time

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
老半天 lǎo​bàn​tiān
a long time
(colloquial) a long time; quite a while; ages. Often used to emphasize that the speaker feels a duration of time has been especially long.

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