year dotとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

the year dot

1. (idiomatic, British, Ireland) A very long time ago, from the beginning or as far back as one can remember.

   Synonym: (Australia, NZ) day dot

   That hat dates from the year dot.

   • 1989 June, Phil South, “Rage Hard”, in Your Sinclair magazine‎, archived from the original on 2012-03-10:

     Disk interfaces have been around since the year dot, as people soon realised that the microdrive was unreliable, unstable and generally rubbish for the storage of anything, useless except as a rather small beermat.

Further reading

• Year Dot, in LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus.