cold day in Hell

cold day in Hell

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Noun

cold day in Hell (plural cold days in Hell)

1. (idiomatic, slang) The time of occurrence of an event that will never happen.

   It'll be a cold day in hell when that happens.

Translations

an event that will never happen

Basque: haizerik ez den urtean (literally “in the year without wind”) Belarusian: калі рак свісне (kali rak svisnje) Bulgarian: кога́то цъ́фнат налъ́мите (kogáto cǎ́fnat nalǎ́mite, literally “when pattens blossom”) Chinese: Mandarin: 绝不可能, 绝无可能 Danish: en kold dag i helvede Dutch: met Sint Juttemis; als Pasen en Pinksteren op één dag vallen Esperanto: triĵaŭda semajno (literally “week with three Thursdays”) Finnish: kun helvetti jäätyy (literally “when Hell freezes over”) French: quand les poules auront des dents (fr) (literally “when hens have teeth”), semaine des quatre jeudis (fr) (literally “week with four Thursdays”), à la Saint-Glinglin (fr), aux calendes grecques German: nie im Leben (literally “never in a lifetime”) Greek: όταν ασπρίσει ο κόρακας και γίνει περιστέρι (ótan asprísei o kórakas kai gínei peristéri) Hungarian: majd ha piros hó esik (literally “when red snowflakes are snowing”), majd ha cigánygyerekek potyognak az égből (literally “when gypsy children are streaming from the sky”), majd ha a pokol befagy (literally “when Hell freezes over”) Italian: alle calende greche (literally “on the Greek Calends”), quando gli asini voleranno (literally “when donkeys fly”) Persian: وقت گل نی‎ Polish: jak rak świśnie a ryba piśnie (pl) Russian: когда́ рак на горе́ сви́стнет (ru) (kogdá rak na goré svístnet, literally “when a crayfish whistles on the mountain”), по́сле до́ждичка в четве́рг (ru) (pósle dóždička v četvérg, literally “after a small rain on Thursday”) Spanish: cuando las ranas críen pelo (es), cuando meen las gallinas Turkish: kırmızı kar yağınca (literally “when it snows red”), çıkmaz ayın son çarşambası (tr) (literally “the last Wednesday of the non-ending month”)

See also

• first of never
• never in a month of Sundays
• snowball's chance in hell
• when Hell freezes over
• when pigs fly