| 词汇 | till the cows come home |
| 词源 | till the cows come home. Relatively modern amplifications of this one include Till the cows come home in the morning and Till hell freezes over and the cows come skating home over the ice. The expression has meant “a long, long time” for a long, long time, since about 1600, and the idea behind it is that cows take their own good time about coming home if they aren’t driven— often until the next morning, when, with udders painfully swollen, they come home to be milked. |
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