a cold day in Hell

English

Noun

a cold day in Hell (plural cold days in Hell)

1. (idiomatic, slang) The time of occurrence of an event that will never happen.

   It'll be a cold day in hell when that happens.

Translations

an event that will never happen

• Bulgarian: когато цъфнат налъмите (bg) (kogáto cǎfnat nalǎmite) (when pattens blossom)
• Danish: en kold dag i helvede (da)
• Dutch: met Sint Juttemis; als pasen en pinksteren op één dag vallen
• Finnish: kun helvetti jäätyy (when Hell freezes over)
• French: quand les poules auront des dents (fr) (when hens will have teeth), la semaine des quatre jeudis (fr) (on the week with four Thursdays)
• German: nie im Leben (de) (not in a lifetime)
• Hungarian: majd ha piros hó esik (when red snowflakes is snowing), majd ha cigánygyerekek potyognak az égből (when gipsy children are streaming from the sky), majd ha a pokol befagy (when Hell freezes over)

• Italian: alle calende greche; when it will be a Roman holiday in the greek calendar, quando gli asini voleranno (it) (when donkeys will fly)
• Portuguese: quando as galinhas criarem dentes, quando as galinhas tiverem dentes (when hens will have teeth)
• Russian: когда рак на горе свистнет (ru) (kogdá rak na goré svístnet) (when a crayfish whistles on the mountain), после дождичка в четверг (ru) (pósle dóždička v četvérg) (after a small rain on Thursday)
• Turkish: kırmızı kar yağınca (when it snows red), çıkmaz ayın son çarşambası (the last Wednesday of the non-ending month)

See also

• when Hell freezes over
• snowball's chance in Hell
• when pigs fly