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  2. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    Another idiom of improbability is 畑に蛤 (Hata ni hamaguri) which means "finding clams in a field". Latin – ad kalendas graecas ("to the Greek Kalends") signified indefinite postponement, since the Greek calendar had no Calends period; also cum mula peperit = "when a mule foaled".

  3. Category:Idioms - Wikipedia

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  4. English-language idioms - Wikipedia

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    An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).

  5. When pigs fly - Wikipedia

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    A weather vane in the shape of a flying pig. The phrase "when pigs fly" (alternatively, "pigs might fly") is an adynaton—a figure of speech so hyperbolic that it describes an impossibility.

  6. ‘So to Speak’ Spells Out Expressions With Wit and Illustrations

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    In terms of feel-good holiday stories, the impetus for the new book “So to Speak: 11,000 Expressions That’ll Knock Your Socks Off” will be tough to match. The witticisms were complied by the ...

  7. After vowing to protect DOGE workers, Trump prosecutor is ...

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    In December, the group sent a list of names to Pete Hegseth, then Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, of people in the military whom it deemed too focused on DEI, according to the New York Post.

  8. Adynaton - Wikipedia

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    In the Eclogue of Plutarch, there is a long list of proverbs and the first section is titled ΠΕΡΙ ΤΩΝ ΑΔΥΝΑΤΩΝ, consisting of proverbs that are built on adynaton. [5] The adynaton form was often used for vows and covenants, such as in the 16th Epode of Horace, 25-34. Its plural form (adynata) was translated in Latin as impossibilia.

  9. Florida veterans hospital’s elevators blasted as ‘death trap ...

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    Failing elevators at a veterans hospital in Miami have injured at least a dozen people over two years, according to a nurses’ union that called the lifts a “death trap.”