英语词汇until a shrimp learns to whistle的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	until a shrimp learns to whistle
词源	until a shrimp learns to whistle. Never. This Russian prov- erb gained worldwide currency when Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) used it in a 1955 speech: “If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels, and Lenin he deceives himself. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.”
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