Tib's Eve

专有名词

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A supposed future time that will never arrive. UK,obsolete,slang
    — Marry you? I'll marry you on Tib's Eve!

词形变化

St. Tibb's Eve alternative St. Tib's Eve alternative Tibb's Eve alternative

词源

After Tib (or Tibb), a fictional woman of loose morals in 17th-century English plays. Such a woman would not be a saint and so there was no Saint Tib and therefore no Tib's Eve.
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