time out of mind = "old and unchanged"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Somebody on NPR the other evening:

"It's built on this former slaveholding plantation, and it's kind of time
out of mind."

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=130437816

JL
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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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