February 2010
January 2010
Equivalents to "when pigs fly" in other languages
ajourneyroundmyskull:
French - “when chicken have teeth” “quand les poules auront des dents”
Russian - “when the crawfish whistles on the mountain” “когда рак на горе свистнет”
Malay - “when cats grow horns” “Tunggu kucing bertanduk”
Swedish - “when there are two Thursdays in the same week” “två torsdagar i veckan”
via The French Factrice
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Jabberwocky
(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”
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– Professor Foley
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