'A long time dead' does not belong in English Slang

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It is not slang.
 
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Many expressions are not slang. What's special about this one?
 
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5jj said:
Many expressions are not slang. What's special about this one?
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The OP seems to mean that it is listed as English slang, when it shouldn't.

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