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  2. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    "When Hell freezes over" [2] and "on a cold day in Hell" [3] are based on the understanding that Hell is eternally an extremely hot place. The "Twelfth of Never" will never come to pass. [4] A song of the same name was written by Johnny Mathis. "On Tibb's Eve" refers to the saint's day of a saint who never existed. [5] "When two Sundays come ...

  3. Parson Brownlow - Wikipedia

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    Brownlow was born in Wythe County, Virginia, in 1805, the eldest son of Joseph A. Brownlow and Catherine Gannaway.Joseph Brownlow, an itinerant farmer, was born in Augusta County, Virginia in 1782 and died during 1816 in Blountville, Tennessee and Catherine Gannaway followed three months later, leaving William orphaned at the age of 10.

  4. When pigs fly - Wikipedia

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    Similar phrases in English include "when hell freezes over" and "monkeys might fly out of my butt", popularized in Wayne's World skits and movies. They are examples of adynata. [5] An exact phrase exists in Spanish, Cuando los chanchos vuelen, literally meaning "when pigs fly".

  5. Points of Interest: Hell Freezes Over (for Realz), Bourdain ...

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    Hell freezing over, Anthony Bourdain planning a New York City street food market and Brazil's World Cup problems are among today's points of interest. Points of Interest: Hell Freezes Over (for ...

  6. Samuel Leibowitz - Wikipedia

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    Back in New York after the trial, Leibowitz vowed to defend the defendants "until hell freezes over." Speaking before enthusiastic audiences sometimes numbering in the thousands, he promised to take guilty verdicts to the US Supreme Court and back until Alabama finally gave up: "It'll be a merry-go-round, and if some Ku Kluxer doesn't put a ...

  7. Adynaton - Wikipedia

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    Adynaton was a widespread literary and rhetorical device during the Classical Period.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]

  8. Hell Freezes Over - Wikipedia

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    Hell Freezes Over is the second live album by the Eagles, released in 1994. The album is the first to be released after the Eagles had reformed following a fourteen-year break up. The band's lineup was that of the Long Run era: Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Don Felder, Joe Walsh, and Timothy B. Schmit.

  9. Forrest Claypool - Wikipedia

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    This quote ran under the banner headline, "Hell Freezes Over: Cook County Board rejects Stroger's budget" in the Chicago Sun-Times. The following year (FY 2005), the County Board rejected Stroger's tax increases again.