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Quand les poules auront des dents

Meaning: Never — it describes something that will simply never happen.

Language: French

Literally: When hens have teeth

Category: The Absurd

Origin: French humor of the 18th century settled on the toothless hen as the perfect image of impossibility, the cousin of English 'when pigs fly'.

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