When pigs fly / When hell freezes over (2024)

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“When pigs fly”, or “pigs might fly” if you prefer, is a way of saying something will never happen, akin to “when hell freezes over”. It is what we call a Adynaton: an exaggerated/hyperbolic figure of speech taken to such lengths as to suggest a complete impossibility.

Definition: It's impossible for pigs to fly, so when someone says this, they are saying that something will (most likely) never happen. Examples: “I might wake up early to clean my room…” “Yeah right, you'll do that when pigs fly.”

"When pigs fly" is an adynaton, a way of saying that something will never happen.

The phrase 'When Pigs Fly' refers to something that is highly unlikely to ever happen. Example of use: "I might wake up early tomorrow to clean my room". "Yes, you'll do that when pigs fly".

If you say that something will happen when hell freezes over, you mean that it will never happen. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Always & never. again. all along idiom.

said when you think that there is no chance at all of something happening: "I'll have finished it by tomorrow." "And pigs can fly!" SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Impossible and improbable.

When Pigs Fly is the third (formerly the second) episode of Bad Piggies, and will be the player's prime introduction to air-based vehicles, and follows directly after the events of Ground Hog Day. It has 36 levels plus 9 Cave levels.

The flying pig symbolizes an openness to new ideas, possibilities, and avenues. These mythical creatures represent an upbeat “never say never” attitude—like when a latchkey kid like me grows up to create a life that's rich, full, and blessed. Despite the odds. Pigs fly every day.

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It's impossible, which is precisely what the expression means. We say it as a response when someone tells us something that we think is impossible or very unlikely. For example, if person A says “Do you think Mary will quit her job now that she's pregnant?” and person B responds “Yeah, when pigs fly!

Here are common rhetorical questions

-Do pigs fly?

US, informal. used to say that one thinks that something will never happen. The train station will be renovated when pigs fly.

Its use in everyday conversation is when we think there is no chance of something actually happening or coming true. But like many phrases, it is sometimes overused.

When Pig's Fly is a Creation Club Community Quest officially added to Fallout 4 as part of its "Next-Gen" Update. This side quest will have you investigate a new merchant his rival competitor to gain access to makeshift weapons including the Nailgun, Saw Blade and Grenade Launcher, and Piggy Bank Fat Man.

In 1980, when the Eagles split after years of multi-million-selling success but increasingly fractious relations between the group members, Don Henley's answer to the question about when they would play together again was “when hell freeze over.” Fourteen years later, metaphorically speaking, it did.

Twice, Jackson sent a flag of truce with a demand to surrender to Captain Simpson, asking him to surrender, but Simpson answered back that "he would fight them until Hell froze over, and if he had to retreat he would retreat on ice."

It was a favorite expression of both P.G. Wodehouse and F. Scott Fitzgerald - the latter often ended his letters with "Yours till hell freezes over".

Events that can never happen

As a response to an unlikely proposition, "when pigs fly", "when pigs have wings", or simply "pigs might fly". "When Hell freezes over" and "on a cold day in Hell" are based on the understanding that Hell is eternally an extremely hot place. The "Twelfth of Never" will never come to pass.