Greek calends | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Atimethatneveroccurs; never;when pigs fly.1923,[François Béroalde de Verville], “Origin of the Decretals”, inArthur Machen, transl.,Fantastic Tales or The Way to Attain—a Book Full of Pantagruelism Now Done for the First Time in English, Carbonnek[i.e., London]: Privately printed,→OCLC,page98:Blockheads, friends of my heart and liver, cousins of my tripe, are you ignorant that this symposium is as authentic as any of those tales of theGreek Calends, which you swallow and digest so easily, [...]?1950January 12,C[live] S[taples] Lewis, “Letters: 1950[To Sister Penelope CSMV (BOD)]”, inWalter Hooper, editor,The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, volumes III (Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963), New York, N.Y.: HarperSanFrancisco,HarperCollins,→ISBN,pages5–6:My book with Professor[John Ronald Reuel] Tolkien– any book in collaboration with that great but dilatory and unmethodical man – is dated, I fear, to appear on theGreek Kalends!

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