Idiom
first of never
Meaning
A nonexistent day; a day that will never come.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He will pay you back on the first of never.”
“When I asked if he would finally finish the project, he laughed and said it would be done on the first of never.”
“The politician promised to lower taxes, but the public knew that such a change would arrive on the first of never.”
Examples
simple
“He will pay you back on the first of never.”
contextual
“When I asked if he would finally finish the project, he laughed and said it would be done on the first of never.”
complex
“The politician promised to lower taxes, but the public knew that such a change would arrive on the first of never.”
Origin
The phrase follows the construction of a standard date, composed of a day followed by a month, as in the first of February. It replaces the specific month with a temporal impossibility to indicate a time that will not arrive.
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