wait until the cows come home
to wait for a very a long time, to wait forever
TRANSLATION
lange dauern, eine sehr lange Wartezeit
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"McNamara, Johnson's Defense Secretary, finally admitted (in his old age) that they were mistaken about the Vietnam War and shouldn¹t have been fighting it at all. Serious lies and untruths will always surface. Sometimes it is quick and still others require years to see the light. I believe the Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorists will WAIT UNTIL THE COWS COME HOME to hear the truth of that incident."
(Joe Lincoln - in Salesmenship - June 2002)
(Joe Lincoln - in Salesmenship - June 2002)
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Did you know?
This idiom comes from the late 16th century and means a long, long time.
Cows took a long time to come from the fields to the barn, so when you use this expression you're describing a long time or passage.
You may also hear the idiom "donkeys' years" which means roughly the same thing.
"It can take donkeys' years to learn to speak a foreign correctly!"
This idiom comes from the late 16th century and means a long, long time.
Cows took a long time to come from the fields to the barn, so when you use this expression you're describing a long time or passage.
You may also hear the idiom "donkeys' years" which means roughly the same thing.
"It can take donkeys' years to learn to speak a foreign correctly!"
