met sint-juttemis

Dutch

Etymology

Originally “met sint-juttemis als de kalveren op het ijs dansen”, meaning “on Saint Judith’s (17 August) when the calves dance on the ice”, clearly an impossible feat, it being summer.

Prepositional phrase

met sint-juttemis

  1. (idiomatic) when pigs fly; never
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