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                           general:: 
                           Soon, in the near future, as in The baby will be teething before long. This idiom was first recorded in 1865.
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
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                           Phrase(s): before long  soon.  •  Billy will be grown-up before long.  •  If we keep spending so much, before long we’ll be without any money.
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
                        McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs