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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 ".
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).
Many fixed idioms lack semantic composition, meaning that the idiom contains the semantic role of a verb, but not of any object. This is true of kick the bucket , which means die . By contrast, the semantically composite idiom spill the beans , meaning reveal a secret , contains both a semantic verb and object, reveal and secret .
Herding Cats: A Life in Politics, a 2005 book by Trent Lott; Herding Cats, by Gaelic Storm, 1999; Herding Cats, a 2010 play by Lucinda Coxon; Herding Cats, a 2010 book by Graeme Davies; Herding Cats: Multiparty Mediation in a Complex World, a 1999 book by Chester Crocker and others; Herding Cats, a 2018 Sarah's Scribbles collection of comics by ...
Glossary of English-language idioms derived from baseball; Bed of roses; Belling the Cat; Best friends forever; Between Scylla and Charybdis; Bill matter; Birds of a feather flock together; Black sheep; Blessing in disguise; Blood, toil, tears and sweat; Born in the purple; The Boy Who Cried Wolf; Bread and butter (superstition) Break a leg ...
Cat Herders is a commercial made by Fallon for Electronic Data Systems (EDS). Alluding to the management-speak idiom "It's like herding cats" that refers to the impossibility of controlling the uncontrollable, it posits an analogy between herding cats and the solution of seemingly impossible problems by EDS.
The owner of a herd of llamas is searching for his animals after they escaped from his property in Utah and began roaming train tracks.
A list of idioms and your interpretation of them maybe (like a dictionary is copyrightable, but not the list of words within). I say lets make a master list of idioms and then piece together their meanings here. --ShaunMacPherson 23:27, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC) Seeing a list of idioms on one page is rather surprising.