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Long Run

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In the long run. Eventually. Here “long run” is not the correlative of a “short run,” but the Latin adverb demum, ultimately; in French, “A la longue.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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London Stone
Long Chalk (A) or Long Chalks
Long Dozen (A)
Long-headed
Long Home
Long Lane
Long Meg of Westminster
Long Odds
Long Parliament
Long Peter
Long Run
Long-Sword (Longue épée)
Long Tail
Long-tailed
Long Tom Coffin
Long Words
Longboat
Longbow
Longchamps
Longcrown
Longevity