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Forth Bridge
     
Forth Bridge
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the Forth Bridge

a famous metal railway bridge built in 1889 over the Firth of Forth. People sometimes say that a job is "like painting the Forth Bridge" when they mean that it seems to never end, because the metal bridge takes a long time to paint, and when the job is finished it has to start again.
2 a road bridge built in 1964 over the Firth of Forth. It is one of the longest suspension bridges in the world.
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