Greek calends
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Greek calends
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Calque of Latin ad kalendās Graecās; unlike the Roman calendar, the Greek calendar had no calends.
noun Greek kalends
- A time that never occurs; never; when pigs fly. Blockheads, friends of my heart and liver, cousins of my tripe, are you ignorant that this symposium is as authentic as any of those tales of the Greek Calends, which you swallow and digest so easily, [...]?
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noun a time that never occurs
| Deutsch | Sankt-Nimmerleins-Tag |
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noun never (translations include the leading preposition)
| Français | aux calendes grecques |
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| Deutsch | am Sankt-Nimmerleins-Tag |
| Italiano | alle calende greche |
| Русский | до гре́ческих кале́нд do gréčeskix kalénd |
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title = {Greek calends},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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