since when
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Adverb
- (colloquial, rhetorical question, sarcastic) From what time.
- Since when do I need your permission?
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0088:
- “[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps ? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic ? Does your Vehmgerichte pay such extraordinary expenses ? […]”
- (colloquial, rhetorical question, sarcastic) (as an interrogative interjection) Used to indicate doubt as to the veracity of a statement.
- The moon is made of green cheese. Since when?
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from what time
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Used to indicate doubt as to the veracity of a statement
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