on a cold day in a hell; it will be a cold day in hell; when pigs begin to fly; in the reign of queen Dick; when the cows come home (Anglophile); when hell freezes over (omniglot.com Tanya Gesse); when hell freezes (over)

fig.of.sp.

pigs might fly (Leonid Dzhepko)

idiom.

pigs can fly (There is no chance of that ever happening. (Used to show skepticism or cynicism over someone's hypothetical remark.) • Bob: "If we could just get Democrats and Republicans to agree on a tax reform bill, we could bring the deficit down in no time." Dave: "Yeah, and pigs can fly!" kirobite); when pigs fly (or "when pigs begin to fly"); tomorrow never comes (makhno)

inf.

when hell freezes (over • Everybody knows that he will do that only when hell freezes)

ironic.

some hopes! (об ожидании чего-либо, что вряд ли сбудется)

lat.

ad Kalendas Graecas (календы это особые дни в римском календаре, в греческом же их не было acrogamnon)

Makarov., slang

in a pig's eye (амер.)

proverb

in a pig's eye; one of these days is none of these days (VLZ_58); at the Greek calends; till the cows come home; when pigs fly; when two Sundays come together; when the devil is blind (дословно: Когда чёрт ослепнет (т.е. никогда)); when shrimps learn to whistle (Fourth); a cold day in hell (it'll be a cold day in hell when that happens Гевар); the devil is blind

sarcast.

not in a month of Sundays (Ivan Pisarev)

saying.

when hell freezes over (You say, she'll return this cash when the hell freezes over? == Так, говоришь, она вернёт мне эти деньги, когда рак на горе свистнет?); till the cows came in (ждать Rust71)

sl., teen.

be a cold day in hell when (- It’ll be a cold day in hell when I let you borrow my car again! - Скорее небо упадёт на землю, чем я одолжу тебе мою машину ещё раз! CRINKUM-CRANKUM)

досл.: холодный день в аду когда рак на горе свистнет

gen.

cold day in hell

когда рак на горе свистнет

: 5 phrases in 2 subjects

General	3
Idiomatic	2

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