when pigs fly
English
Alternative forms
- when pigs can fly
Etymology
Referencing the unlikelihood that pigs will ever evolve wings.
Pronunciation
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪ
Adverb
when pigs fly
- (idiomatic) Never.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:never
Translations
never, expressed by an idiom
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See also
- camel through the eye of a needle
- a cold day in Hell
- ad kalendas Graecas
- first of never
- never in a month of Sundays
- snowball's chance in hell
- when Hell freezes over