"never in a month of Sundays" meaning in English

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Adverb

Audio: En-au-never in a month of Sundays.ogg
Etymology: See month of Sundays. Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} never in a month of Sundays (not comparable)
  1. (idiomatic) At no time whatsoever. Tags: idiomatic, not-comparable Translations (at no time): ei kuuna päivänä (Finnish), la semaine des quatre jeudis (French), am Sankt-Nimmerleins-Tag (German), בחיים לא (Hebrew), mai e poi mai (Italian), ad kalendas Graecas (Latin), op Mokuchsdag (Luxembourgish), aldri i evighet (Norwegian Bokmål), ikke på vilkår (Norwegian Bokmål), na Sveto Nigdarjevo (Serbo-Croatian), kad na vrbi rodi grožđe [idiomatic] (Serbo-Croatian), nikad, a možda ni tad [idiomatic] (Serbo-Croatian)
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          "word": "ikke på vilkår"
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      "sense": "at no time",
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      "sense": "at no time",
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      "sense": "at no time",
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      "sense": "at no time",
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      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "at no time",
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
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      "word": "ikke på vilkår"
    },
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