"when pigs fly" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Referencing the fact that pigs do not have wings and cannot fly.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "adverb"
      },
      "expansion": "when pigs fly",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Cantonese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          ],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English subordinate clauses",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Inuktitut terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Yiddish terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Pigs",
          "orig": "en:Pigs",
          "parents": [
            "Even-toed ungulates",
            "Livestock",
            "Mammals",
            "Agriculture",
            "Animals",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Chordates",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Never."
      ],
      "id": "en-when_pigs_fly-en-adv-n-atCfou",
      "links": [
        [
          "Never",
          "never"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Never."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "camel through the eye of a needle"
        },
        {
          "word": "a cold day in Hell"
        },
        {
          "word": "ad kalendas Graecas"
        },
        {
          "word": "first of never"
        },
        {
          "word": "never in a month of Sundays"
        },
        {
          "word": "snowball's chance in hell"
        },
        {
          "word": "when Hell freezes over"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "never"
        },
        {
          "word": "when pigs can fly"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "af",
          "lang": "Afrikaans",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "as die perde horings kry"
        },
        {
          "code": "arz",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "note": "فِي الْمِشْمِش (fī l-mišmiš, literally “in the apricot [season]”)",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "tags": [
            "Egyptian-Arabic"
          ]
        },
        {
          "code": "afb",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "note": "إِذَا حَجَّتِ الْبَقَرَة عَلَى قُرُونِهَا (ʔiḏā ḥajjati l-baqara ʕalā qurūnihā, literally “when the cow goes on pilgrimage on its horns”)",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "tags": [
            "Gulf-Arabic"
          ]
        },
        {
          "code": "ajp",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "note": "لَمَّا يَنْوَر اَلْمِلْح (lammā yanwar al-milḥ, literally “when salt blossoms”)",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Palestinian Arabic"
          ],
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
        },
        {
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "note": "երբ խոզը բարձրանա ծառը (erb xozə barjrana caṙə, literally “when the pig climbs up the tree”)",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
        },
        {
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "dəvənin quyruğu yerə dəyəndə"
        },
        {
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "note": "на святыя ніколі (na svjatyja nikóli, literally “on Saint Never[’s day]”)",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
        },
        {
          "code": "br",
          "lang": "Breton",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "kentre ma moc'h kelieno"
        },
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "note": "на куково лято (na kukovo ljato, literally “in a cuckoo’s summer”)",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
        },
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "quan les gallines pixin"
        },
        {
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "豬乸會上樹"
        },
        {
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "note": "猪乸会上树 (zyu¹ naa² wui⁵ soeng⁶ syu⁶, literally “when pig sows climb up the tree”)",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "天落紅雨，馬生角"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "天落红雨"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese",
          "note": "马生角 (thiⁿ lo̍h âng-hō͘, bé seⁿ/siⁿ kak, literally “when rain is red and horses grow horns”)",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ]
        },
        {
          "code": "lzh",
          "lang": "Literary Chinese",
          "note": "烏頭白，馬生角 (wū tóu bái, mǎ shēng jiǎo, literally “when crows have white heads and horses grow horns”)",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
        },
        {
          "code": "lzh",
          "lang": "Literary Chinese",
          "note": "天雨粟，馬生角 (tiān yù sù, mǎ shēng jiǎo, literally “when it rains millets and horses grow horns”)",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "除非太陽從西邊出來"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "note": "除非太阳从西边出来 (chúfēi tàiyáng cóng xībiān chūlái, literally “when the sun rises in the west”)",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "tags": [
            "rare"
          ],
          "word": "až kohout vejce snese"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "až naprší a uschne"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "na svatého Dyndy"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "až půjde žid z pouti"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "wanneer Pasen en Pinksteren op één dag vallen"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "met sint-juttemis"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "kiam la ratoj seksumos kun la musoj"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "en la tago de Sankta Neniamo"
        },
        {
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "kui kana pissib"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "kun lehmät lentävät"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "quand les poules auront des dents"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "aux calendes grecques"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "à la Saint Glinglin"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "la semaine des quatre jeudis"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "à Pâques ou à la Trinité"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "à la Saint-Glinglin"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "roca viri xeze ava",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "როცა ვირი ხეზე ავა"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "am Sankt-Nimmerleins-Tag"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "wenn Ostern und Pfingsten auf einen Tag fallen"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "tou agíou poté",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "του αγίου ποτέ"
        },
        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "note": "כשחזירים יעופו (k'shekhazirím ya'úfu, literally “when pigs fly”)",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
        },
        {
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "note": "सूरज पश्चिम से उगेगा (sūraj paścim se ugegā, literally “when the sun rises in the west”)",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "majd ha fagy"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "holnapután kiskedden"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "majd ha piros hó esik"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "majd ha cigánygyerekek potyognak az égből"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "sohanapján"
        },
        {
          "code": "iu",
          "lang": "Inuktitut",
          "note": "ᑐᓗᒃᑲᑦ ᖃᑯᖅᓯᒃᐸᑕ (tolokkat qakoqsikpata, literally “when the ravens turn white”)",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "lá Philib an Chleite"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "lá Thaidhg na dTadhgann"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "quando gli asini voleranno"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "alle calende greche"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "note": "枯れ木に花咲く (kareki ni hana saku, literally “dead trees blossom”)",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "ad kalendas Graecas"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "cum mula peperit"
        },
        {
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "kad cūkas lidos"
        },
        {
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "kad pūcei aste ziedēs"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "na kukovo leto",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "на куково лето"
        },
        {
          "code": "ml",
          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "note": "കാക്ക മലന്നു പറക്കും (kākka malannu paṟakkuṁ, literally “the crow will fly upside down”)",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "note": "وقت گل نی (vaght e gol e ney, literally “when the reed plant blossoms”)",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "na świętego nigdy"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "quando os porcos voarem"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "no Dia de São Nunca"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "no Dia de São Nunca à tarde"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "când o zbura porcul"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "când va face plopul pere"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "la paștele cailor"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "când mi-oi vedea ceafa"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "la Sfîntu-așteaptă"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "note": "когда́ рак на горе́ сви́стнет (kogdá rak na goré svístnet, literally “when a crayfish whistles on the mountain”)",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "note": "по́сле до́ждичка в четве́рг (pósle dóždička v četvérg, literally “after a small rain on Thursday”)",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "кад на врби роди грожђе"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
          "word": "kad na vrbi rodi grožđe"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "el día que las vacas vuelen"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "cuando las ranas críen pelo"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "cuando San Juan agache el dedo"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "när grisar flyger"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "sa pagputi ng uwak"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "sa pag-itim ng tagak"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "koly rak na hori svysne",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "коли рак на горі свисне"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "ne bačyty jak svoho nosa",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "не бачити як свого носа"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "koly na doloni volossja vyroste",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "коли на долоні волосся виросте"
        },
        {
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "note": "جب زمین اور آسمان ایک ہونگے (jab zamīn aur āsmān ek hōngē, literally “when the sky and the Earth meet”)",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
        },
        {
          "code": "fy",
          "lang": "West Frisian",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "as de keallen op it iis dûnsje"
        },
        {
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "ven moshiyekh vet kumen",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "װען משיח װעט קומען"
        },
        {
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "ven s'vet zayn dray teg reshkhoydesh",
          "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
          "word": "ווען ס׳וועט זײַן דרײַ טעג ראש־⁠חודש"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "List of idioms of improbability",
        "when pigs fly"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪ"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-when pigs fly.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f8/En-au-when_pigs_fly.ogg/En-au-when_pigs_fly.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/En-au-when_pigs_fly.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
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  "word": "when pigs fly"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Referencing the fact that pigs do not have wings and cannot fly.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "adverb"
      },
      "expansion": "when pigs fly",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "camel through the eye of a needle"
    },
    {
      "word": "a cold day in Hell"
    },
    {
      "word": "ad kalendas Graecas"
    },
    {
      "word": "first of never"
    },
    {
      "word": "never in a month of Sundays"
    },
    {
      "word": "snowball's chance in hell"
    },
    {
      "word": "when Hell freezes over"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "English adverbs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English subordinate clauses",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "Inuktitut terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "Requests for review of Turkish translations",
        "Rhymes:English/aɪ",
        "Rhymes:English/aɪ/3 syllables",
        "Yiddish terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "en:Pigs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Never."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Never",
          "never"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Never."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "never"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "List of idioms of improbability",
        "when pigs fly"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪ"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-when pigs fly.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/En-au-when_pigs_fly.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "when pigs can fly"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "as die perde horings kry"
    },
    {
      "code": "arz",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "note": "فِي الْمِشْمِش (fī l-mišmiš, literally “in the apricot [season]”)",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "tags": [
        "Egyptian-Arabic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "afb",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "note": "إِذَا حَجَّتِ الْبَقَرَة عَلَى قُرُونِهَا (ʔiḏā ḥajjati l-baqara ʕalā qurūnihā, literally “when the cow goes on pilgrimage on its horns”)",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "tags": [
        "Gulf-Arabic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "ajp",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "note": "لَمَّا يَنْوَر اَلْمِلْح (lammā yanwar al-milḥ, literally “when salt blossoms”)",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Palestinian Arabic"
      ],
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "note": "երբ խոզը բարձրանա ծառը (erb xozə barjrana caṙə, literally “when the pig climbs up the tree”)",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "dəvənin quyruğu yerə dəyəndə"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "note": "на святыя ніколі (na svjatyja nikóli, literally “on Saint Never[’s day]”)",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
    },
    {
      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "kentre ma moc'h kelieno"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "note": "на куково лято (na kukovo ljato, literally “in a cuckoo’s summer”)",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "quan les gallines pixin"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "豬乸會上樹"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "note": "猪乸会上树 (zyu¹ naa² wui⁵ soeng⁶ syu⁶, literally “when pig sows climb up the tree”)",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "天落紅雨，馬生角"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "天落红雨"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "note": "马生角 (thiⁿ lo̍h âng-hō͘, bé seⁿ/siⁿ kak, literally “when rain is red and horses grow horns”)",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "lzh",
      "lang": "Literary Chinese",
      "note": "烏頭白，馬生角 (wū tóu bái, mǎ shēng jiǎo, literally “when crows have white heads and horses grow horns”)",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
    },
    {
      "code": "lzh",
      "lang": "Literary Chinese",
      "note": "天雨粟，馬生角 (tiān yù sù, mǎ shēng jiǎo, literally “when it rains millets and horses grow horns”)",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "除非太陽從西邊出來"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "note": "除非太阳从西边出来 (chúfēi tàiyáng cóng xībiān chūlái, literally “when the sun rises in the west”)",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "až kohout vejce snese"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "až naprší a uschne"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "na svatého Dyndy"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "až půjde žid z pouti"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "wanneer Pasen en Pinksteren op één dag vallen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "met sint-juttemis"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "kiam la ratoj seksumos kun la musoj"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "en la tago de Sankta Neniamo"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "kui kana pissib"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "kun lehmät lentävät"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "quand les poules auront des dents"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "aux calendes grecques"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "à la Saint Glinglin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "la semaine des quatre jeudis"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "à Pâques ou à la Trinité"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "à la Saint-Glinglin"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "roca viri xeze ava",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "როცა ვირი ხეზე ავა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "am Sankt-Nimmerleins-Tag"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "wenn Ostern und Pfingsten auf einen Tag fallen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "tou agíou poté",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "του αγίου ποτέ"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "note": "כשחזירים יעופו (k'shekhazirím ya'úfu, literally “when pigs fly”)",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "note": "सूरज पश्चिम से उगेगा (sūraj paścim se ugegā, literally “when the sun rises in the west”)",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "majd ha fagy"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "holnapután kiskedden"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "majd ha piros hó esik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "majd ha cigánygyerekek potyognak az égből"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "sohanapján"
    },
    {
      "code": "iu",
      "lang": "Inuktitut",
      "note": "ᑐᓗᒃᑲᑦ ᖃᑯᖅᓯᒃᐸᑕ (tolokkat qakoqsikpata, literally “when the ravens turn white”)",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "lá Philib an Chleite"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "lá Thaidhg na dTadhgann"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "quando gli asini voleranno"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "alle calende greche"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "note": "枯れ木に花咲く (kareki ni hana saku, literally “dead trees blossom”)",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "ad kalendas Graecas"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "cum mula peperit"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "kad cūkas lidos"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "kad pūcei aste ziedēs"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "na kukovo leto",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "на куково лето"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "note": "കാക്ക മലന്നു പറക്കും (kākka malannu paṟakkuṁ, literally “the crow will fly upside down”)",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "note": "وقت گل نی (vaght e gol e ney, literally “when the reed plant blossoms”)",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "na świętego nigdy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "quando os porcos voarem"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "no Dia de São Nunca"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "no Dia de São Nunca à tarde"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "când o zbura porcul"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "când va face plopul pere"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "la paștele cailor"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "când mi-oi vedea ceafa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "la Sfîntu-așteaptă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "note": "когда́ рак на горе́ сви́стнет (kogdá rak na goré svístnet, literally “when a crayfish whistles on the mountain”)",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "note": "по́сле до́ждичка в четве́рг (pósle dóždička v četvérg, literally “after a small rain on Thursday”)",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "кад на врби роди грожђе"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "kad na vrbi rodi grožđe"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "el día que las vacas vuelen"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "cuando las ranas críen pelo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "cuando San Juan agache el dedo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "när grisar flyger"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "sa pagputi ng uwak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "sa pag-itim ng tagak"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "koly rak na hori svysne",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "коли рак на горі свисне"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "ne bačyty jak svoho nosa",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "не бачити як свого носа"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "koly na doloni volossja vyroste",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "коли на долоні волосся виросте"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "note": "جب زمین اور آسمان ایک ہونگے (jab zamīn aur āsmān ek hōngē, literally “when the sky and the Earth meet”)",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom"
    },
    {
      "code": "fy",
      "lang": "West Frisian",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "as de keallen op it iis dûnsje"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "ven moshiyekh vet kumen",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "װען משיח װעט קומען"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "ven s'vet zayn dray teg reshkhoydesh",
      "sense": "never, expressed by an idiom",
      "word": "ווען ס׳וועט זײַן דרײַ טעג ראש־⁠חודש"
    }
  ],
  "word": "when pigs fly"
}