Welcome to another episode of the A to Z English podcast.
Today we're doing idioms.
So our idioms for today are many moons ago and down to earth.
Jack, why don't you kick us off telling us what many moons ago means to you?
Okay, well, I'm wondering if you asked me, because I'm so old and I have many moons, there are many moons that I have lived through.
Many moons ago just means.
I mean, this is just a kind of poetic way to say a long time ago, you know, so one moon would be yesterday, two moons would be two days ago.
But many, many moons, or many moons would just mean, oh, many days ago or many years ago, or even decades ago.
It just means a long time ago.
Sotzel, can you give me an example of when you might use this idiom?
I think this idiom I often see used as a.
Sorry, let me start again.
No, it's okay.
I think I often see this idiom used in literary English versus spoken English.
You might see this sometimes in conversation as, like a set up for a joke or something, but more commonly, I've seen it used in literary English.
So if I was reading something like a fable or something about mythology, the author might say, many moons ago, when the earth was still young.
So this just references so, so many years, hundreds of years ago.
But it can be used to denote a time period that is less than that.
However, I don't think it's.
It would really be used for, like, a time frame of months.