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Tom Long

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Waiting for Tom Longi.e. a wearisome long time. The pun, of course, is on the word long.

 

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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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Tog
Toga
Togad or Togated Nation (The)
Toledo
Tolmen (in French, Dolmen)
Tolosa
Tom
Tom Folio
Tom Fool’s Colours
Tom Foolery
Tom Long
Tom Raw
Tom Tailor
Tom Thumb
Tom Tidler’s Ground
Tom Tug
Tom and Jerry—i.e
Tom, Dick, and Harry
Tom oBedlams
Tomboy
Tomahawk