"Greek calends" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1923, [François Béroalde de Verville], “Origin of the Decretals”, in Arthur Machen, transl., Fantastic Tales or The Way to Attain—a Book Full of Pantagruelism Now Done for the First Time in English, Carbonnek [i.e., London]: Privately printed, →OCLC, page 98:",
          "text": "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, [...]?",
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          "text": "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!",
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        "A time that never occurs; never; when pigs fly."
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        "(idiomatic) A time that never occurs; never; when pigs fly."
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          "sense": "a time that never occurs",
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          "word": "Sankt-Nimmerleins-Tag"
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          "sense": "never (translations include the leading preposition)",
          "word": "aux calendes grecques"
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          "sense": "never (translations include the leading preposition)",
          "word": "alle calende greche"
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          "sense": "never (translations include the leading preposition)",
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          "roman": "do gréčeskix kalénd",
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      "sense": "never (translations include the leading preposition)",
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      "roman": "do gréčeskix kalénd",
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