Tanım
•when pigs fly, when two Sundays come together, never
Diğer Dillerde
an keinem Zeitpunkt, zu keiner Zeit
eş: nie, niemals, ad calendas graecas, nie im Leben, im Leben nicht, wenn der Hahn Eier legt
never; when pigs fly
köken: Calque of Latin ad kalendas Graecas.
when pigs fly; never
köken: Originally “met sint-juttemis als de kalveren op het ijs dansen”, meaning “on Saint Judith’s (17 August) when the calves dance on the ice”, clearly an impossible feat, it being summer.
never at all; never in a month of Sundays.
köken: Attributed by Suetonius in Lives of the Twelve Caesars to Caesar Augustus. The kalends (also written calends) were specific days of the Roman calendar (the first of the month), not of the Greek, and so the “Greek Kalends” would never occur.
Etimoloji
Literally, “until the peas' Sunday”.