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View synonyms for till the cows come home

till the cows come home

  1. For a long time: “Mr. Rowland said that as far as he was concerned, the delinquent students could stay there washing blackboards till the cows came home.”


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Also, when the cows come home . For a long time, as in You can keep asking till the cows come home, but you still may not go bungee-jumping . This term alludes to when the cows return to the barn for milking. [Late 1500s]

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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