Brewer's: Long Run

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.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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