Greek calends
nounEtymology
Calque of Latin ad kalendās Graecās; unlike the Roman calendar, the Greek calendar had no calends.
- calqued from ad kalendās Graecās
Definitions
A time that never occurs
A time that never occurs; never; when pigs fly.
- 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!
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for Greek calends. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA