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Phrase
nigh on
- Almost, nearly; approaching; not quite.
I had been working in this industry for nigh on twelve years when it happened.
1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XVI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:“ […] They say he has sold himself to the devil for a pretty face. It’s nigh on eighteen years since I met him. He hasn’t changed much since then. I have, though,” she added, with a sickly leer.
1964, Ron Angel (lyrics and music), “The ICI Song”:I’ve shoveled up the gypsum till it nigh on makes you choke.
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