Greek calends

English Alternative forms en Greek kalends Etymology en la ad kalendās Graecās; unlike the Roman calendar, the Greek calendar had no calends. Noun p en idiomatic A time that never occurs; never; when pigs fly. en [François Béroalde de Verville] Origin of the Decretals w:Arthur Machen 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 1923 98 https://books.google.com/books?id=NYoFAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA98 3863239 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, [...]? en C[live] S[taples] Lewis Letters: 1950 [To Sister Penelope CSMV (BOD)] w:Walter Hooper The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis New York, N.Y. HarperSanFrancisco, HarperCollins 12 January 1950 III (Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963) 5–6 https://books.google.com/books?id=6C9XuyJrkTgC&pg=PA6 978-0-06-081922-4 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! Usage notes Used after a preposition such as en at, en on, or en till. Translations a time that never occurs German: de Sankt-Nimmerleins-Tag m Welsh: cy dydd Sul y pys the peas' Sunday never (translations include the leading preposition) Dutch: nl met sint-juttemis French: fr aux calendes grecques German: de am Sankt-Nimmerleins-Tag Italian: it alle calende greche Latin: la ad kalendas Graecas Russian: ru до гре́ческих кале́нд Welsh: cy tan ddydd Sul y pys until the peas' Sunday References en 1873 John Camden Hotten The Slang Dictionary