 |
|
|
#1
07-03-2006, 18:33
|
||||
|
||||
|
Pigs will fly
First time I heard "Pigs will fly.." in IJs post where he said "pigs will fly before Jaws ring the bell".
Is this a common use in English? I have no problem to understand it but wonder if its just IJs own expression or a common one? 
|
| Guest Info |
|
+:+:+ Forum Headquarter +:+:+ |
|
#2
07-03-2006, 18:36
|
||||
|
||||
|
Very common Nicke.
__________________
|
|
#3
07-03-2006, 18:49
|
||||
|
||||
|
Yeah really common phrase.. So common that flying pigs have been used as a joke in simpsons and also thinkign about it Pink Floyds concert shows !!
__________________
Men have only 2 emotional states, hungry and horny.. So ladies, if you see me without an erection, make me a sandwich.
|
|
#4
07-03-2006, 19:02
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
More chance of hell freezing over or flyiing pigs than some BMs ringing the bell.  Quote:
__________________
Member of Phuket Hash House Harriers
|
|
#5
07-03-2006, 19:03
|
||||
|
||||
|
Probably most commonly used as "and pigs might fly", as a response to someone who says something unlikely to happen. Another use could be when someone says something stupid to point at a window, or at the sky and say "oh, look there's a flying pig".
__________________
"管它黑貓白貓，會抓老鼠的就是好貓"
|
|
#6
07-03-2006, 19:05
|
||||
|
||||
|
55555555 when I saw IJ's post along with the expresion it reminded me about the Simpsons episod when smithers asks Mr Burns about a donation of one millions dollars for a childrens hospital and Mr Burns respond "pigs will fly before I do it" at the same moment a pig comes flying right outside their window 5555555 one of the beatles and his wife was in that episode
__________________
The man who said "A bird in the hand's worth two in the bush" has been putting his bird in the wrong bushes.
|
|
#7
07-03-2006, 19:17
|
||||
|
||||
|
ANOTHER ONE I USE..........
THERE WILL BE "WHITE BLACK BIRDS " BEFORE YOU BUY a round of drink !!!!!!!!
__________________
ROLL ON OCTOBER........
|
|
#9
07-03-2006, 19:45
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
Yeah I thought of that too.. Lisa the vegitarian episode.. Monty Burns and Smithers stand at the window of Burns' office. Burns: You know, Smithers, I think I'll donate a million dollars to the local orphanage...when pigs fly! [They laugh. The pig sails across the sky before them.] Smithers: Will you be donating that million dollars now, Sir? Burns: Nooo, I'd still prefer not.
__________________
Men have only 2 emotional states, hungry and horny.. So ladies, if you see me without an erection, make me a sandwich.
|
|
#12
08-03-2006, 02:21
|
||||
|
||||
|
[quote=faultytowers]Quote:
Originally Posted by Garybar Kinda works in the way that "when hell freezes over' does. More chance of hell freezing over or flyiing pigs than some BMs ringing the bell. Quote: Adverb "when Hell freezes over" (idiomatic) never; not in this lifetime; not a chance. "Will you go out with him?" "When Hell freezes over!" Translations Swedish: när helvetet fryser till is Hell is in norway not to far frome TRONDHEIM and it do freez over in the whinter
__________________
Sting -"tears in waves minds on fire " I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
|
|
#13
08-03-2006, 03:39
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
55555, and I hear UA has an 85 year old in the ranks.
|
|
#15
08-03-2006, 03:55
|
||||
|
||||
|
Down here in Oz, we have some of our own, which dont seem to be understood by others, like some of these
storm stick - umbrella mystery bags - sausages head job - hair cut steak and kidney - sydney dead horse - tomato sauce bum nut - egg cows juice - milk
|
|
#16
08-03-2006, 04:08
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
The Aussies "Dead Horse= Sauce and steak and kidney=sydney are along the lines of the Cockney(London)Rhyming slang. The must be a huge book of them but how many are used today is another thing. A "Richard" was one of the most obscure. Richard=Richard the third=turd 
__________________
I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my Granddad Not screaming in fear like his passengers
|
|
#17
08-03-2006, 04:14
|
||||
|
||||
|
We have something similar but I cant remember it now, it has nothing to do with pigs thought.
Quote:
|
|
#18
08-03-2006, 11:03
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
ha ha We were drinking in Valhalla and the fast piss taking conversation with a bunch of brits was going on and Paulie was getting more and more confused.. Then some ryhming sland was used (using only the first word as it should) and he was getting more lost.. A few of the boys were londoners and we all started really hamming it up.. In the end he just threw his hands up and was like "for gods sake speak english" !!!
__________________
Men have only 2 emotional states, hungry and horny.. So ladies, if you see me without an erection, make me a sandwich.
|
|
#19
08-03-2006, 11:22
|
|||
|
|||
|
Quote:
Eastern states sayings? Never heard them before!!
|
|
#21
08-03-2006, 14:07
|
||||
|
||||
|
dogs eye - meat pie
joe blake - snake banana bender - person from queensland mexican - person from victoria sandgroper - person from western austrlia shiela - women blue - fight bush telly - a camp fire
__________________
MAY THE BEER BE COLD AND ALL YOUR BETS WINNERS
|
|
#22
08-03-2006, 14:32
|
||||
|
||||
|
heard all of stevem maybe eastern slang or maybe youse lot "just out of nappies"
__________________
MAY THE BEER BE COLD AND ALL YOUR BETS WINNERS
|
|
#23
08-03-2006, 14:47
|
||||
|
||||
|
Joe Blake was a Steak at my house...
__________________
Men have only 2 emotional states, hungry and horny.. So ladies, if you see me without an erection, make me a sandwich.
|
|
#24
08-03-2006, 14:54
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
NICE GUY BUT HIS WIFE IS A COMPLETE CNUT..ALWAYS COCKS HER NOSE UP IN THE AIR WHEN SHE SEES ME COMING........ IJ
__________________
ROLL ON OCTOBER........
|
