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Meaning of Greek calends | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A time that never occurs; never; when pigs fly.

idiomatic, plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Cymraeg dydd Sul y pys tan ddydd Sul y pys
Deutsch am Sankt-Nimmerleins-Tag Sankt-Nimmerleins-Tag
Français aux calendes grecques
Italiano alle calende greche
Latina ad kalendas Graecas
Nederlands met sint-juttemis
Русский до гре́ческих кале́нд

Examples

“Blockheads, friends of my heart and liver, cousins of my tripe, are you ignorant that this symposium is as authentic as any of those tales of the Greek Calends, which you swallow⟳ and digest so easily, [...]?”
“My book with Professor [John Ronald Reuel] Tolkien – any book in collaboration with that great but dilatory and unmethodical man – is dated, I fear, to appear⟳ on the Greek Kalends!”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Greek Catholic Greek chorus Greek cross Greek fire Greek foot Greek fret

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