Idiom
a cold day in July
Meaning
The time of occurrence of an event that will never happen.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He will apologize on a cold day in July.”
“I will lend you my car on a cold day in July, so please stop asking.”
“The politician promised to lower taxes, but everyone knew that would happen on a cold day in July.”
Examples
simple
“He will apologize on a cold day in July.”
contextual
“I will lend you my car on a cold day in July, so please stop asking.”
complex
“The politician promised to lower taxes, but everyone knew that would happen on a cold day in July.”
Origin
The idiom draws upon the Northern Hemisphere’s climatic reliably, noting that July is on average the hottest month of the year. The phrase functions as a marker of the improbable, predicated on the statistical certainty that a day of significant cold would be a meteorological aberration during that specific month.
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