"if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2007, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Resident Evil: Extinction, page 115",
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          "ref": "1984, Vonda N. McIntyre, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, page 108",
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        "(colloquial, vulgar, humorous) It is fruitless to speculate about counterfactual situations."
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          "word": "if I had wheels, I'd be a wagon"
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          "word": "if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle"
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          "word": "if my grandmother had balls, she'd be my granddad"
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