el día que las vacas vuelen: meaning & examples
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Meanings:
- A jocular way of saying that something will never happen; equivalent to 'never' or 'when pigs fly'.
Examples
BetaMe compraré un coche nuevo el día que las vacas vuelen, porque ahora no tengo dinero.
I will buy a new car when cows fly, because I don’t have money right now.
¿Crees que él cambiará de opinión? Eso pasará el día que las vacas vuelen, nunca.
Do you think he will change his mind? That will happen the day cows fly, never.
Prometió ser puntual, pero lo hará el día que las vacas vuelen, nunca llega a tiempo.
He promised to be punctual, but he’ll do it when cows fly, he’s never on time.
El día que las vacas vuelen tendremos vacaciones de un mes todos los años.
The day cows fly we will have month-long vacations every year.
- Equivalent of the English idiom "When pigs fly": It sarcastically refers to an absurd or impossible event, because pigs, of course, cannot fly. So when someone says something will happen "when pigs fly," they mean it’s never going to happen.
Examples:
- ES: Sí, el día que las vacas vuelen.EN: You'll get him about the time you get your third set of teeth.EN: Ha ha ha! Yeah, that'll be the day.
- ES: Te dejaré ir tan lejos sin mí el día que las vacas vuelen.EN: It will be a cold day in hell before I let you go that far without me.
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