not in a month of Sundays
Definition
› If you say that something will not happen in a month of Sundays, you mean that it is very unlikely to happen: He's never going to get that finished in a month of Sundays!Long periods of timeAlways and never
(Definition of not in a month of Sundays from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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not have the remotest idea idiom
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not have the stomach for sth idiom
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not hear of sth phrasal verb
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not hear the end/last of sth idiom
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not hold with sth phrasal verb
- not in a month of Sundays idiom
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not in the biblical sense idiom
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not in the least idiom
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not in the same league idiom
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not know sb from Adam idiom
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not know the first thing about sth idiom
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Synonyms and related words:
- again adverb (ONE MORE TIME)
- all along idiom
- all-time adjective
- always adverb (EVERY TIME)
- always adverb (FOR EVER)
- ever adverb (ALWAYS)
- first noun (NEVER BEFORE)
- in all my (born) days idiom
- in/through all the years idiom
- invariably adverb
- ne'er adverb
- never adverb
- till/until kingdom come idiom
- till/until the cows come home idiom
- time noun (MINUTES/DAYS/YEARS)
- time noun (OCCASION)
- when hell freezes over idiom
- whenever adverb, conjunction
- wherever adverb, conjunction
- will modal verb (ALWAYS)
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