Greek calends

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A time that never occurs; never; when pigs fly. idiomatic,plural,plural-only
    — 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, [...]?

词形变化

Greek kalends alternative

词源

Calque of Latin ad kalendās Graecās; unlike the Roman calendar, the Greek calendar had no calends.
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