when pigs fly
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when pigs fly
Rhymes with -aɪ
Where it comes from
Referencing the fact that pigs do not have wings and cannot fly.
adverb when pigs can fly
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Never.
"You know, my friend," said Mongan, "that I can't get Duv Laca back unless the King of Leinster asks me to take her back, for a bargain is a bargain."
"That will happen when pigs fly," said mac an Dáv, "and," said he, "I did not make any bargain with any king that is in the world."
Similar: at latter Lammas, at no time, in the reign of Queen Dick, ne'er, never, never ever, not while pussy's a cat, on the second Tuesday of the week, sine die, when Hell freezes over, when pigs fly, when two Sundays come together
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adv never, expressed by an idiom
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