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forever
adverb (UK also for ever) /fəˈre.vər/
/fɔːˈrev.ɚ/ Definition
B1 for all time: I like the house but I don't imagine I'll live there forever.Continuous and permanent › informal very often: She's forever telling him she's going to leave him but she never actually does.Continually and repeatedly B2 for an extremely long time or too much time: We'd better walk a bit quicker - it's going to take forever if we go at this pace.Continuous and permanent
(Definition of forever adverb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- (from) hour to hour idiom
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