"a year and a day" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{head|en|adverb}} a year and a day
  1. (law) The period defined as the legal limit of time for an act or event, to ensure a full year by any method of reckoning. Categories (topical): Law Translations (legal concept): år og dag (Norwegian Bokmål), år og dag (Norwegian Nynorsk), år och dag (Swedish), natt och år (Swedish), undydd a blwyddyn (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-a_year_and_a_day-en-noun-hdz9G3gB Topics: law Disambiguation of 'legal concept': 90 10
  2. (idiomatic) A long time. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Time Synonyms: forever and a day Translations (a long time): år og dag (Norwegian Bokmål), år og dag (Norwegian Nynorsk), år och dag (Swedish), natt och år (Swedish), undydd a blwyddyn (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-a_year_and_a_day-en-noun-9IxR06hb Disambiguation of Time: 41 59 Categories (other): English coordinated pairs, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Welsh translations Disambiguation of English coordinated pairs: 14 86 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 86 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 13 87 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 88 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations: 6 94 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 9 91 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of 'a long time': 3 97
     
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