English

Description

A point in time that will never come. Used to point out that something is utterly ridiculous.

Examples

"My cheap friend paying for dinner? That will happen when pigs fly"

Equivalents

This is how you express this idiom across languages and locales.

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Afrikaans
as die perde horings kry
if the horses get horns
Arabic
لَمَّا يَنْوَر اَلْمِلْح‎
when salt blossoms
Armenian
երբ խոզը բարձրանա ծառը
when the pig climbs up the tree
Bulgarian
на куково лято
In the summer of Cuckoos
Chinese
豬乸都會上樹
when pigs climb up the tree

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