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Greek calends

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Or Greek kalends

plural noun

  1. a point or time that does not or will not exist.

    She will do it on the Greek calends.


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"Perhaps it was in the Greek calends," said Edric.

From Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)

He must be instigated from without, if the deed is not to be put off until the Greek calends.

From Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study by Sadger, J.

When the possession is conceded, where is the evil that the right, which that concession supposes to be merely hypothetical, is referred to the Greek calends for a future disquisition?

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Johnson, Samuel

They unhesitatingly rejected the whole story of my wealth; and my future restoration to rank and riches used to be employed as a kind of synonym for the Greek calends.

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James

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