Talk:List of idioms of improbability

Latest comment: 5 months ago by Richard-of-Earth in topic blue moons

german

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analogous to the saint ... in other languages German has "Sankt Nimmerlein" (roughly: saint never) on whose day things are supposedly going to happen

==If the sky falls, we will catch larks==

Never heard that one. References, citations? 213.205.200.48 (talk) 12:28, 14 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Siberia when Stalin ruled -- "Hell froze over"

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In view of the infamous nastiness of the USSR, especially under Stalin, and the extreme cold associated with Siberia -- maybe Hell literally froze over every winter! Pbrower2a (talk) 04:44, 14 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

The Chicago Cubs winning the World Series

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Does the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series in 2016 really deserve to be on this page? (Harmless, but confusing to those who aren't in on the joke) 2016-12-04 09:13 (UTC)

blue moons

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The phrase "once in a blue moon" is, I believe, much older than the trivial calendric sense of the phrase, and the article ought not to imply that the new sense is the only sense. —Tamfang (talk) 19:19, 14 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Other entries on this page do not go into such details and it is misleading. I removed the sentence. People can follow the link blue moon to get more information. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 20:06, 19 May 2024 (UTC)Reply